Trazzler

Trazzler is a cool new travel site that doesn't try to help you book trips, but instead helps you figure out where you want to go. Personally, I love going places but don't know where the cool places and things to do are—whether in foreign lands or in my own back yard. Trazzler gives you a quick and simple way to develop a travel "wish list" that's pretty fun. Obvious (aka, me) is an investor in Trazzler. And Biz and I are both advisers.

What does your city say?

Another great essay by Paul Graham: "Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder."

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.

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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