damn cool!
wish I saw him more :)
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Do you respond to cold emails, or just intros?
I absolutely respond to every intro/referral.
I do my best to respond to cold emails as well but that can take awhile sometimes.
The best way to reach me with a cold email is to send me a brief note describing what you are building, why and ideally a link to a demo or prototype. If you don’t have a demo or prototype then a brief description of the product is fine too.
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What was your favorite part of your trip to Paris?
one night after dinner we walked from Arc de Triomphe to our hotel in the 6th Arrondissement. I think it was a 4k walk and it was perfect.
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Bijan: I’ve gathered that you’re a fellow vinyl aficionado. What’s your current phono setup and what are some of your favorite records in the collection?
I bought the Rega P1 when I turned 40 last year. I love it.
some favorites:
-ben kweller, changing horses
-the clash, london calling
-stones, exile on main street & let it bleed
-neil young, massey hall
-bright eyes, one jug of wine
-m. ward, post war
-the who, quadrophenia
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What are your thoughts around enterprise apps built for webOS? Do you think HP could to for the tablets in enterprise what apple has done with the iPad in the consumer market? Is this something you’d invest in?
I’m not very optimistic about that. I’m much more bullish on Android on tablets for consumer and enterprise.
I won’t say never but right now I don’t see any meaningful traction with webOS and the developer community.
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Happy Mothers Day
Moms don’t get enough credit
We all know that. They do so much every day and for everyone else.
My kids have an amazing mom. I love the relationship that Lauren has with the kids. Each one different but they all share something quite special.
I know I am really lucky and fortunate to have such a wonderful mom too. She has done so much for me and never stops.
I know I probably took my mom for granted too many times as much as I hate to write that down.
It shouldn’t require a holiday to take a step back and shower the moms in our life with love and appreciation. But it’s a healthy reminder.
I’m looking forward to seeing my mom later today. I hope you all get to do the same.
Happy Mothers day.
Let’s Wrestle – We Are The Men You’ll Soon Grow To Love
Turn it up & enjoy.
one of many great memories from the past week in Paris.
I still can’t post my song of the day because I’m without my laptop.
So here’s a screen grab of what’s playing on my iPhone right now.
Digital books
I usually try out new technologies as soon as I can. Partly because it’s my job to get my hands dirty to get a feel of where new things can take us.
But it’s also because I genuinely love trying new stuff out.
The one thing I’ve never seriously used is a Kindle. I’ve played with it a few times over the years by fooling around with my friends devices but i have never read a book “cover to cover” on the kindle. It just never felt right to me. The blinking screen, the awkward keyboard and ui, the lack of color etc.
But I’m reading books now on the ipad.
And it’s fantastic. The biggest drawback to date has been the limited selection in the iBookstore but we know this will improve.
It’s exciting to think about the future of books and textbooks and how they will impact education, entertainment and the world.
It’s interesting that apple paid so much detail to making a digital book feel like an analog book. They give you a bookcase to store your books. They have a slick way to turn pages that is pure delicious eye candy. You can bookmark pages. There are page numbers. The list of analog gestures goes on.
But i don’t see why we need to maintain all of these analog things. Just like the iPhone ditched the desktop metaphor of folders, documents and the trashcan, it seems like the digital book needs to make that same leap.
Future digital books can free themselves and become beautiful web pages – along with links, annotations, social interactivity, video and beautiful text. Maybe a future textbook could look like a blog post?
It just feels like books on the ipad are screaming to be set free.
I would also love to see the barrier on the tools side of things lowered so anyone can create beautiful digital books or websites or whatever they turn out to become.
Anyway back to my reading on the ipad. I’m reading the “happiness project” right now. And thinking about the future of digital books is making me very happy.
(please excuse lack of links and typos. Writing this on my iPhone).