““The thing that kills me on Dragon’s Den is [contestants] say have got a website and I want to look at whatever the website does. When I am talking to the promoter I always want to know who is your technical co-founder? They don’t have that! They’re like we outsource that to India … I’m like you don’t get it!
“This is not some sort of business school plan — you need to have the capability inside your organisation. You need to be good at technology and marketing. You can’t outsource that! It’s a core competency. That drives me nuts!”
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“popularity is not influence and influence is not popularity”
Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
“The 100 Year Starship also will include a scientific research institute, The Way whose major emphasis will be speculative, long-term science and technology.”
Mae Jemison and Team Establish 100 Year Starship | Icarus Interstellar
Stuff of science fiction. The Way.
“Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. It’s the only thing that ever has.”
“Twitter is OUR media, the public have become the news editors and the Twitter trend list is the running order.”
“At the time, De Rosa told me, “Nobody seems to have cracked the nut on being able to find that tweet from the person who nobody knew prior to that vital piece of information they posted.”
“Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” he says.”
