Roni Harari, the passionate gardener from my last post says it makes no sense to have everyone stop using water because of the drought here in Israel. He says we are just buying the government more time – which they are not using to find a long-term solution to the water situation. He says – […]
Passion is the key. Roni is passionate – when I hire him to do work for me – I get many of the advantages of his passion without having to invest my life in his passion. Working with passionate people pays!
When I was 13 years old and living in Dallas Texas, I recall going to see White Nights, the movie in which Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer ends up on a flight that lands in Russia. I think he has to outrun the local authorities because he is wanted there for changing sides a few years […]
I bike to work when the weather is decent. It’s only 5km but the route is pretty hilly so I get some real exercise on the way. Today when I was on the last incline before reaching the office – I saw what appeared to be a beetle crossing the road. In any case I […]
Check out this – Remember Opera, the little browser that could for a while… They are back and taking a new stab at the browser space with Opera Unite – supposed to contain server in the browser – kind-of a P2P platform but not just for stealing videos and music. (Are there other things worth […]
Recently I was reflecting on how the internet has developed – following roughly the following stages: Libraries and Universities post their information online – Internet as extension of the library Corporations and Organizations build websites – Internet as extension of advertising space Sophisticated users build their sites – Revenge of the Nerds – Meritocracy allows […]
Google tells you what websites say, it includes some news and blogs and even shopping, but its not “regular people” who dont have a website or a blog. Google is really fast – we have seen them cache pages in a minute or so, but for most searches – the results on Google seem to be months old.
Sam Michelson’s first blog post….