Internet Haze

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.

In my Twitter timeline, I see a lot of frustration with Uber. It’s easy for people in tech to pile on and Tweet about how they’re switching to Lyft, or Sidecar, or going back to driving their Tesla and parking it with LuxeValet. But that misses a key point: this isn’t just about Uber, this is about Silicon Valley, and our culture. Fred Wilson blogs about Uber’s values and culture, their combination of “ruthless execution and total arrogance” — but those are the values and culture that we reward in the Valley. We tend to value ruthless execution and short-term success…and we make media heroes out of founders that deliver on what we value. Instead, we should reward healthy competition, long-term shareholder value, and responsible leadership.

A quidditch game requires each team to have a maximum of four players who identify with the same gender, excluding the seeker. The gender that a player identifies with is considered to be that player’s gender, which may or may not be the same as that person’s sex. We call this the “four maximum” rule. USQ accepts those who don’t identify within the binary gender system, and acknowledge that not all of our players identify as male or female. We welcome people of all identities and genders into our league.

Our job isn’t to fight it, but to weather it together, on the raft of life. 

The thing about programing is it makes you more interested in designing systems to reduce work load than doing the actual work.

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.