May 2012
1 post
April 2012
2 posts
“These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners,...”
– 2012 Billboard Music Awards (via davidhoffman)
Thank you, Boulder.
Thank you, Boulder.
Next Big Sound is moving to New York City June 1st, but not without first saying a very sincere thank you. We literally could not have gotten Next Big Sound off the ground anywhere else in the country besides Boulder, Colorado.
David, Samir and I are from Reno, Florida, and upstate NY, respectively. We had no ties to Boulder, Colorado other than my aunt who happened to move to...
March 2012
2 posts
If you want to read...
Pick up the book.
If you want to run, take off your sandals and put on your running shoes.
If you want to cook, preheat the oven.
If you want to write, open the blank Word document.
If you want to talk, pick up the phone.
We all play procrastination games with ourselves but at the end of the day, it’s really quite simple to get started.
Don’t check facebook and twitter....
12 ways school can be rethought and re-imagined
From Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams:
Homework during the day, lectures at night
Open book, open note, all the time
Access to any course, anywhere in the world
Precise, focused instruction instead of mass, generalized instruction
The end of multiple-choice exams
Experience instead of test scores as a measure of achievement
The end of compliance as an outcome
Cooperation instead...
February 2012
1 post
1000 Days
When starting a company time is measured in days. How many days until launch? How many days until the big presentation? How many days until we are completely out of cash?
David, Samir and I moved to Boulder, Colorado to be part of Techstars in 2009 on a hail mary pass.
We had no money, no previous success and the idea that we applied with, we no longer wanted to pursue. For some reason David...
October 2008
5 posts
“Today’s stock market crash is nothing. I was there for the Great Stock Market...”
– Tim Siedell, If you follow one person one twitter. Follow this guy
From the Spam Folder #2
Hi, my name is Paul and I’m one of those “Internet” guys …
September 2008
9 posts
personal web presence
kevintwohy:
Personal web presence, increasingly, is created and mediated by third-parties outside of individuals’ control. Many people don’t know (or care) what Google returns when you search for “their name,” but this stuff matters. Your potential employer will look at it when you apply for a job, and the admissions office will look when you apply to college.
If people haven’t yet abandoned...
“People make decisions based on information they find on the Web. So companies...”
– Google Co-Founder in 1998. This is more significant now with Google’s dominant market position.
On Personal Growth
Genuine personal growth is honest. You can’t take shortcuts through the land of make-believe. Your first commitment must be to discover and accept new truths, no matter how difficult or unpleasant the consequences may be. You can’t solve problems if you don’t admit they exist.
How can you achieve a fulfilling career if you won’t admit that your current job is wrong for you?
How can you improve...
“If you had a choice between receiving $1,000 right now or $4,000 ten years from...”
From the Spam Folder #1
Stay in bed with your woman 3-5 hours instead 3-5 min like now
Trendwatching: Merging the online and offline... →
Kevin Kelly video finishes off this insightful report. He compares the internet to a brain and explores the blending of the atomic and the digital:
100 billion clicks per day/firings
55 trillion links/synapses
1 quintillion transistors/neurons
How Finding a Job is like Being Single
When you are single you want everyone to know you are single because they are more likely to set you up with friends and you are more prone to come up in relevant conversations.
When you are looking for a job you want everyone to know you are looking for a job because they are more likely to offer introductions and you are more prone to come up in relevant conversations.
August 2008
24 posts
“The market is astonishingly quick at responding to what consumers do (and...”
– Seth Godin
“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because...”
– Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science (via davidhoffman. I took the same class he references in his post, and I remember liking this quote too.) (via lifedigital) I took the same class as both of them. Go Learning and Organizational Change majors
“Every ounce of time, energy, money, and brainpower you spend on thinking about...”
– Fred Wilson
Customers have saved over $1 billion!
Bank of America (BOA) has introduced a related product called keep the change. The idea is when you spend whatever change is left from rounding up to the nearest dollar is automatically put into your savings account.
Music Industry?
Product Development
Big companies are good at extracting the value from existing products, but bad at creating new ones.
-Paul Graham
“I was thinking how easily people get stuck in places. I mean, first of all you...”
– Justin Johnson (via marco)
How people get stuck.
“Simple, clear, purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent...”
– Dee Hock
The Next Big Sound - Daily Candy →
davidhoffman:
walterblaurock:
LISTEN The Next Big Sound What: Sign indie bands to your own online record label and watch your status rise and fall with the number of people who sign the group after you. Why: Sound garden. When: Before the music dies. Where: Online at thenextbigsound.com.
In the weekend guide for D.C. Neat.
“If you’ve got a list of 20 things you should be doing, pick the most important...”
– Sivers/Ferriss to 37signals
“Ever thought of quitting your day job?”
– The ironic subject line of an email that made it passed the Spam filter as I contemplate that very possibility.
On Giant Checks
In our office we have one of those rediculous oversized checks. One universal truth about human beings is that they must ask if we tried cashing it at the bank.
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...”
– Maya Angelou
I would add: how they treat waiters and janitors, Sunday afternoons, and by looking at their email inbox.
Crux: A Story of Two Definitions
Dictionary Definition:
a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point: The crux of the trial was his whereabouts at the time of the murder.
Urban Dictionary Definition:
Pwning people in the face with burst fire famas: I just Cruxed him in the face from across the map
One More Thing... THE NEXT BIG SOUND
So one of my friends is starting a new movement called Nerd Hop. Be sure to check out the mixtape when it comes out soon.
nerdhop:
So one of my friends just started this new website. Its pretty fresh, it allows you to play the roll of a music mogul by signing artists. I was actually around during the nascent stages of the project so its dope to see it come to fruition. I also happen to be an...
“Isaac Newton famously stated, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing...”
– danah boyd (via artistspaid)
The Next Big Sound Muxtape →
The Next Big Sound meets Muxtape
thenextbigsound:
Enjoy the rest of your friday afternoon with a taste of some unsigned music from The Next Big Sound. This muxtape has a single from each of the top 10 artists on our charts and will be updated weekly.
July 2008
12 posts
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted”
– Randy Pausch (via brieflynoted)
I am the 55,146,441 richest person in the world →
From Digg Article About Restaurants
Splitting entrées is okay, but don’t ask for water, lemon, and sugar so you can make your own lemonade. What’s next, grapes so you can press your own wine?
“I just heard on the news that today is the day they’re launching the...”
– My tech-saavy dad