less humans, more robots

"I’m super-excited! We had our first acquisition offer yesterday. Well, it wasn’t really..."

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:46:49 +0530

“I’m super-excited! We had our first acquisition offer yesterday. Well, it wasn’t really an offer. And no, they didn’t really use the word acquisition, or M&A or “buy”. But there was some high-level, strategic talk about how we could work together. And, he paid for lunch, so there must be some interest.”

- Things Entrepreneurs Never Confess To Their VCs

If an artificial intelligence became a folk singer, it might...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:40:37 +0530

If an artificial intelligence became a folk singer, it might sing this song:

John Pavlus’s video for Jascha Hoffman’s ”Limited” combines clips fromTRON, 2001, Moon, WarGames and Robocop to create a new, impressionistic narrative.

The song, from Hoffman’s new album The Future Limited, is about an artificial intelligence that wants to be human, and the video recasts familiar A.I. personalities, like HAL, in this light.

Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:48:00 +0530

Now and then I think of when we were together

Like when you said you felt so happy you could die

I told myself that you were right for me

But felt so lonely in your company

But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

Like resignation to the end

Always the end …

My latest fav Fab band

For a related treat, don’t miss this charming minimalist 8-bit...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:44:00 +0530

For a related treat, don’t miss this charming minimalist 8-bit animation about the titans of Silicon Valley.

(The Dawn of the Microprocessor and the Birth of Venture Capital)

"Watching Hugo made me realize how careless I am with adjectives; I have nothing authoritatively..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:09:52 +0530

“Watching Hugo made me realize how careless I am with adjectives; I have nothing authoritatively superlative left to describe the experience. “Awesome” is too commonplace and “magnificent” is falls short of its beauty.”

- anandphilip

"A heart was meant to beat. And air was meant to be breathed, close to your ear. And your skin was..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:04:08 +0530

“A heart was meant to beat. And air was meant to be breathed, close to your ear. And your skin was meant to remember what mine felt like. And some songs were meant to play on repeat. And the sun was meant to come down. And we were meant to ignore it when it woke up. And days were meant to pass. And nights were meant to follow. And your eyes were meant to cry out whatever pain was left. And I never meant to hurt you. But I guess that’s what everyone says.”

- I Wrote This For You

(Takanori Aiba’s Amazing Bonsai Tree Castles are Miniature...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:08:13 +0530

(Takanori Aiba’s Amazing Bonsai Tree Castles are Miniature Living Worlds Bonsai Treehouse by Takanori Aiba)

Wish you were here - Bliss like waves to the shorepart of the...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:50:41 +0530

Wish you were here - Bliss

like waves to the shore
part of the ocean
the stars high above
part of the sky

now i drift to you
i dream of a river
a water so blue
wish i could live there

wish you were here..

like the air that i breathe
u’ll always be there
the wings that i need
when i wanna fly

now i drift to you
i dream of a river
a water so blue
wish i could live there

wish you were here..

I will possess your heart - Death Cab for Cutie When a band...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:29:23 +0530

I will possess your heart - Death Cab for Cutie

When a band spends 4.44 mins in instrumental building up to the song. That. Love.

“You gotta spend some time with me…love..and I will possess your heart.”

Wait, how did you survive the Titanic?

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:11:06 +0530

Wait, how did you survive the Titanic?

Feedback from #TEDxAmritaU

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:25:00 +0530

One student/faculty from AmritaU wrote to me this, after my talk.

Hey

I happened to be at TEDxAmrita today and I was totally looking forward to your talk because i did a background check on you and all that. Your twitter..facebook..blog. So your one liners were rather repetitive.

Your talk was a major disappointment. It didn’t even register that the theme of your speech was ‘Burn the Map’.

It got lost amidst all the bullshit. I felt the need to tell you all this after i saw your tweet about it. You are very well in that delusional area of your venn diagram if you think it went well.The general opinion was that you are an arrogant anorexic freak.You did come across as one. And not just to the ones who took the ‘infy’ suit placements. Girls do like crazy men but it would be rather hard to find one who will buy the the attitude that comes with your craziness.

Better luck next time. Just a bit of ‘constructive criticism’.

Thanks for this mail Miss. KS, I’ll work hard to make some sense; next time, if any.

And, apologies if i come across as a cocky-arrogant-SoB; I think I am. I love what I do and I dislike people who don’t have the balls to create something when you are designed to build something. I hate them.

[When I was discussing your mails w/ my friend, she said this “you are an idiot :) who in indian society tell us to do what we CAN do ..rather than what we should do?”]

And I hate it more, when I trust your abilities. Because as an entrepreneur turned VC, my job is to back people who are ‘so unreasonable’ that you’ll change the world oneday. I hate people like you because ‘you don’t get it’ - and I blame you and the people around you for that.

Miss K.S; if you are a faculty member and didn’t understand the meaning of “Burn the Map” - Its so sad (for your students)

FYI: those are not cheezy lines to gain publicity. They are the truth and we millions of entrepreneurs are the living proof of it.

Moral of the story:

1. Girls do like crazy men

2. Ask if I care

3. Don’t go to ‘non-entrepreneurial’ colleges

4. I was very successful in pissing off suits, lazy people and some not-driven faculty.

5. The world needs more kids who can yell “the king is naked”

An audience member at WWDC in 1997 trolls Steve Jobs in front of...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:47:12 +0530

An audience member at WWDC in 1997 trolls Steve Jobs in front of everyone, but Steve responds with grace.

(Bold emphasis : important.)

Question: I would like, for example, for you to express in clear terms how, say java, in any of it’s incarnations, addresses the idea (inaudible). And when you’re finished with that, perhaps you could tell us what you personally have been doing for the last 7 years.

Steve: You know, you can please some of the people some of the time, but…. One of the hardest things when you’re trying to effect change is that people like this gentleman are right in some areas.

…

The hardest thing is: how does that fit in to a cohesive, larger vision, that’s going to allow you to sell 8 billion dollars, 10 billion dollars of product a year? And, one of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technology”. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. And I made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I got the scar tissue to prove it. And I know that it’s the case.

…

And as we have tried to come up with a strategy and a vision for Apple, it started with “What incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer?” Not starting with “Let’s sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and then how are we going to market that?” And I think that’s the right path to take.

"This was also before wi-fi, when having internet at your home was sort of a “big deal,” like only..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:00:04 +0530

“This was also before wi-fi, when having internet at your home was sort of a “big deal,” like only .com-ers or very well adjusted yuppies had it, and so I — unemployed at the time, with grave and unsound artistic ventures — went to the public library two or three times a day eagerly and obsessively checking my hotmail for the latest installment of our wordy courtship. Seeing her name, swollen, bold with hope; clicking on it, holding my breath at her words, until rested assured that things were fine. Very lonely people tend to find each other, like a split atom trying to be whole again. Yes, it was sad, but wonderful.”

- Internet Like Story « Thought Catalog

I wish that I could be a bird. That I could fly, that I could...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:23:49 +0530

I wish that I could be a bird.

That I could fly, that I could sing

That I could touch untouchable peaks,

That I could forget the roads of this earth

And never return.

I would bathe in holy wells,

Swallowing great gulps of bountiful water.

I would sit on the shore of a great lake

And sing a halting song. I would go into a flowering wildrness

And inhale the perfume-laden air.

I would warm the mountain peaks, frozen by centuries of coldness, In a close embrace.

I wish that I could be a bird.

I think I was blind before I met you…..this is the first...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:24:12 +0530

I think I was blind before I met you…..this is the first day of my life and I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you.

I brain you: without my brain, my heart is useless [another gem...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:57:08 +0530

I brain you: without my brain, my heart is useless

[another gem by bandragirl]

If you understand this painting, you know about my next startup...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:29:43 +0530

If you understand this painting, you know about my next startup err Indie business.

Photo

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:19:17 +0530

Facebook by numbers – currently bigger than the U.S., smaller...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:38 +0530

Facebook by numbers – currently bigger than the U.S., smaller than India in “population.”

cool story bro

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:49:30 +0530

cool story bro