Category: General
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Moving
Things have been quiet on this blog lately, and they will be for a few days more. I have a lot to talk about: Culture Hack Scotland, which was not just a blast, but a groundbreaking event for both the Scottish cultural sector and its technical community Impref.me, my product from the above, which is […]
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“Basecamp was done almost entirely without risk.”
I really like this quote from 37 signals: Basecamp was done almost entirely without risk. It was completely self-funded. We treated it as a side-product and a side-project until it could pay the bills. And only then did we make it the main focus of the company. I absolutely hate risk. I think it’s a […]
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Bookstores and serendipity
Here’s one of my favorite places on Earth: It’s called the Norrington Room. It sits in the basement of Blackwell’s, the oldest bookshop in Oxford (where I grew up), and when it was opened in 1966 it was the largest room full of books for sale in the world. I love bookshops, but I rarely […]
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Confessions of an entrepreneur’s wife
This article is long, but worth reading to the end: He came home and lay on the couch for a week, confused and a little lost. With the long overdue luxury of time and hindsight (and bed rest dictated by a bad case of bronchitis), he analyzed the past year’s activity. He believed that the […]