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Comment on Notes from Monoculture by Rachel Li

Rachel Li — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:04:03 +0000

I also use the stickie method…great post thanks for sharing your highlights.

: )

Comment on Notes from Monoculture by FS Michaels

FS Michaels — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:12:49 +0000

Thanks for your recent posts re. Monoculture – really interesting to see what stood out to you. All the best for 2012 -

Comment on SOPA/PIPA protest at City Hall by Dale Allyn

Dale Allyn — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:46:27 +0000

Thank you for attending, Caterina. It’s sad that we even need to rise in protest of such nonsense (SOPA/PIPA), as our “representatives” pander to special interests instead of act in the best interest of all.

What’s more, too many citizens don’t even know this is going on, and invest little attention to important current events. We need to help change that.

Comment on I asked my friends, “Is Minecraft a good game?” by Jesse Crockett

Jesse Crockett — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:38:36 +0000

Oh, I thought I had something to say, but on second thought, it seems that I don’t.

Comment on Zugzwang by Jens

Jens — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:31:09 +0000

German is a wundervolle Language :)
Greetings from .de. Have a nice 2012 and always inspiring to read your Blog.

Comment on Engineers without borders, and the Monoculture by caterina

caterina — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:23:47 +0000

Suraj, thanks for the encouragement! I really appreciate it. Yes, I’m one of those that would “like to write a book some day” but haven’t quite gotten around to it. In the interim, I’ll post more to this blog. :-)

Comment on Engineers without borders, and the Monoculture by suraj

suraj — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:13:55 +0000

I’m surprised you have not yet written a book about your experiences and your rich and varied life. Everybody else is doing it, you should too! It would be very interesting and IMHO better than most of the drivel that gets published these days, I for one would be especially interested in the story behind Flikr, your views on where the industry is headed and whatever wisdom and starch you can impart to the young ‘uns.

Please do consider this request seriously.

Comment on From Swamplandia! by Satya Reddy

Satya Reddy — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:07:20 +0000

Yes that would be nice indeed not to have a choice sometimes. no regrets later about the “road not taken” and no need to sweat about a “road less traveled”.

Comment on From Swamplandia! by caterina

caterina — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:26:08 +0000

Ah, I have a whole bunch of quotes from the book that have been bookmarked for later, but haven’t gone through them. I just liked this idea. We have so many choices to make in the world these days, too many choices, and sometimes it is a beautiful thing to have only one choice. You can’t be wrong about it. It seemed a very strong idea to me.

Comment on From Swamplandia! by bryan farley

bryan farley — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:27:37 +0000

perfect! Just looking for a book recommendation.

Why this quote?

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Michael Williamson

Michael Williamson — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:41:57 +0000

Abra-ham seems wrong somehow since Ham was cursed, the story seems corrupted or something. Who would accept having Ham in their name knowing that the perv had done something to his drunk nekked dad ? I mean really ? I ain’t gonna claim no Ham-ite ancestors yuk ?

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:59:38 +0000

I remember this passage from the small bit of the Bible I’ve read. I then tried to use “begat” in a high school Literature essay to describe how one event led to another. My teacher didn’t quite understand.

I like your view of founders as “The Abraham.” I think it’s important for founders to keep this perspective as they look to make a profound impact on the world.

Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by P

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:49:29 +0000

I think I found another typo.

“you’re the father or three religions after all.”

I suspect you meant of, not or.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Derek

Derek — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:19:08 +0000

I’ve always wondered why the “begets” even care about the line that led to Joseph, who has no relation to Jesus whatsoever. Why not trace the line that led to Mary? Seems like either blatant sexism or an admission that, yeah, Joseph was the real father. Though i guess a lot of them were kings and whatnot.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Caterina Fake on the influence of founders | ASH-10

Caterina Fake on the influence of founders | ASH-10 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:04:37 +0000

[...] admire because, socially, it’s not the toxic sludge-fest that YouTube is. She has this theory that understanding the founders of a service, the Abraham as she calls them, is essential in underst…. The Abraham is especially powerful in social software, in anything that shows the people, the [...]

Comment on Killing the Abraham by deadprogrammer

deadprogrammer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:22:27 +0000

Oh, and the best part is that Primer’s Abraham carries a loaded last name — Terger. There’s one thing that is common amongst tech founders: lack of ability to deal with ethical issues, leading to a lot of regret.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by deadprogrammer

deadprogrammer — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:08:14 +0000

The best movie about startups that I’ve seen is “Primer”, and the names of principal founders in it were Abe and Aaron.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Maintenance Man

Maintenance Man — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:33:42 +0000

Be like Abraham. Have a few years of experience under your belt before you begat anything.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:00:22 +0000

This seems to be a similar line of thinking to Rushkoff’s Programme or be Programmed – understand the origins and intentions of a tool to understand what that tool is really for. Very useful perspective – thanks for writing it.

Comment on Killing the Abraham by caterina

caterina — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:03:59 +0000

You’re right! Fixed.