February 2012
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
A quest I have undertaken many times before - Absolutely brilliant.
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The Router in your head.
You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today’s best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.
One day I took my step-Dad’s car to the car wash. When I pulled back out onto the main road, with wet tyres, the rear end of the car...
January 2012
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The Top Idea in Your Mind
I’d noticed startups got way less done when they started raising money, but it was not till we ourselves raised money that I understood why. The problem is not the actual time it takes to meet with investors. The problem is that once you start raising money, raising money becomes the top idea in your mind. That becomes what you think about when you take a shower in the morning. And that...
