random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition: "As to the rest of the wannabees, it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from prototype to Internet-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don't know shit."

Adaptive Path seeks CEO

If I was qualified for this job, I'd think seriously about it. Good people doing good work.

Tip for cleaning out your closet

Don't ask, Can I imagine wearing this? Instead ask, Can I imagine this ever being the best possible thing in my closet to wear?

Works for other things too.

My TweetCloud

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Delicious Company

Wil Shipley:

"I believe the best software is written by small groups of people who have both passion and vision. Passion is easy to define; you care so deeply about something that it wounds you if it's done poorly. Vision can mean different things, but I mean the ability to not just come up with new ideas, but to actually be able to see how they would integrate with people's lives. Vision without passion gives you a guy who sitting on couch saying, 'Flying cars! Wave of the future! Mark my word, the guy who invents that's going to be rich... pass the chips.' Passion without vision gives you America's current political situation, where we allow huge companies to destroy the world but pass laws to make sure nobody marries a turtle."

Twitter Explained

I've been trying to explain Twitter for a couple years now. My new answer will be to link to this video the Common Craft guys put together.

This is how you do it

Hilarious Science Fair Experiments

Was poking around on my list of blogs and found Ev's MoCamBlog, which is where I used to send pictures from my phone.

Disappointingly, all the images are gone. Sigh. Only a phone company (in this case, Sprint) would delete a customer's content (with no communication about it—at least that I saw) when the customer is still paying >$100/month.

Twitter Technology Blog

Probably not many people know that our developers blog over on the Twitter Technology Blog. Take a look if you love technology.