I am really enjoying the “the everything store”, a book about Jeff Bezos and Amazon by Brad Stone. (I’m reading it on my new iPad mini retina which is an amazing tablet btw) Anyway back to the book. I am about halfway through it. It’s quite interesting to sneak behind the curtain and learn about […]
Continue reading "Amazon meetings"http://bijan.tumblr.com/post/61295817100/audio_player_iframe/bijan/tumblr_mt60m7b5kQ1qz4j35?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fbijan%2F61295817100%2Ftumblr_mt60m7b5kQ1qz4j35 Hold On We’re Going Home — Arctic Monkeys Fred’s Tumblr is on an Arctic Monkeys tear again which has infected me too. Here’s a cover by Alex and the guys. Original by Drake. Loving this. update: fixed broken link. enjoy.
Continue readingIf there’s any broader issue I have with the Valley,” Karp says, it’s that “you’d have to be out of your mind to live in Palo Alto. By Design | David Karp Is Tumblr’s Reluctant Technologist – NYTimes.com I love David.
Continue readingI haven’t done one of these random thoughts in awhile so I thought I would write down a few things. Maybe I’ll pick up one of these topics in the future and expand on them in the near future. Ok, in no particular order. 1. I’m on this wonderful music email chain list at the […]
Continue reading "Random stuff"I get this question frequently since I wrote this post. It’s nice to see fellow enthusiasts wanting to push their photography skills farther along their journey. Right now, there are so many fine cameras it is hard to go wrong. But since I’ve written this down for a number of friends lately, I thought I […]
Continue reading "What kind of camera should I buy?"I continue to be in awe of our online connected communities that where we discover our passions and then allow us to act on it in ways we previously didn’t consider possible for ourselves. Just a few examples: There are folks getting book deals from their contributions on Tumblr. Here is one of my favorites. […]
Continue reading "Discovering your passion & work in connected communities"Yesterday I saw this great Steve Jobs quote over on MG’s Tumblr: “Nike sells a commodity, they sell shoes. And yet when you think of Nike you feel something different than a shoe company. In their ads, as you know, they don’t ever talk about the product, they don’t ever talk about their air soles, […]
Continue reading "How do you honor your users?"via fred-wilson: Jennifer – Little Comets can’t recall if i posted this song when i first heard it on soundcloud a few weeks ago. well if i did, this is a repost. if not, enjoy. Fred is a friend and easily one of my favorite DJs on Tumblr.
Continue readingPeter Vidani, Tumblr’s Creative Director. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Continue readingIt’s likely this post is going to upset a few folks. That is not my intention. If you follow this blog at all its fairly obvious I’m not the best writer and I enjoy making photographs more than making essays. But sometimes I like to air out my thoughts so here goes nothing. I love […]
Continue reading "Early adopters: so right at first and then so wrong later on ?"