February 2012
4 posts
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Why I am doing a startup and have no plan for...
I want to change the world.
I am bad at working for others. As a freelancer and as an employee.
If I think something needs to be done, I prefer to do it myself than to ask others to do it.
I don’t care for money as long as there is enough to not worry how I will visit the people I love.
I like to be responsible for my actions and be able to right the wrongs.
If I fail I will feel...
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phone numbers are not private
Path and hundreds of other Apps upload the iPhone adressbook without asking. I think it’s stupid to question this behavior as long as the data isn’t used to spam the people.
Asking someone if it’s ok to upload someone elses data is pointless. Asking the people of whom the data is would be spam.
Contact information is normally public (phone books, websites, facebook,…)...
Relevance of tasks
Don’t judge the things your cofounders/coworkers do by your own terms. It may seem unnecessary to spend several hours on thinking how to integrate share buttons if you have all the uncoded code before your eyes. But it makes a difference for the person who implements it and for those who uses it.
If everyone does it’s best in their area, all is great.
(Don’t be a...
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Think, but don't act
Today I had a little telephone conference with Bruno and Andi. I prepared a roadmap of social media integration in work|i|o for the next three releases and wanted some feedback.
Long story short, if we were in the same room, after I put all my documents on the table and explained my thoughts, he would have thrown them on the floor, put one clean sheet on the table and told us to focus on this...