Lake Washington and views of Mt. Rainier

         
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Let’s just build the hotel…

I stumbled across this blog on Twitter. An interesting piece on entrepreneurship:

"The web has been a bad thing for entrepreneurs because too many people believe they can just build something and “throw it out there.” That somehow, magically, people come and then even if you don’t have a revenue model Google buys you because you had a cool idea. No one would ever say “let’s just build the hotel… put it out there and see what happens.” No one would ever say something like that about any non-web business. Web startups shouldn’t be any different."

There seem to be some other good posts as well. A couple that I liked are here and here.

 

At work. Day 4.

Dinner with @ahugh23 at El Toreador in Redmond

Getting settled into the apartment.

Watching the Boston/Orlando game.

Going to go exploring the area in a little bit.

Intelligence

PW Singer @ CMU

PW Singer, author of Wired for War, spoke at CMU this evening. He spoke about robotics, military applications, and the related ethical issues.

While he raised some important points, I was generally unimpressed with his talk. But more on that later.

Did you get cake in class today?

I did. I don't know if you can see the cakes on the front table...

It was our last lecture in our Algorithms class. On a related note, we were covering the cake-cutting problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_division

Coffee cake. Coffee. Ruby hacking.

Maybe they like us better now