Micah on April 30th, 2008

Contrary to the notion that books are dead, I’ve recently been making great use of my local library. While I agree that learning is best accomplished by doing, I still like to start exploring subjects by amassing a bunch of relevant dead-tree books. I like to prop back in an old La-Z-Boy and get real [...]

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Micah on April 29th, 2008

While getting ready for Startup School, I was frantically trying to plow through the bulk of Paul Graham’s essays. He mentions that an important read for preparing to start your own business is How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. I picked it up at the library (footnote: I bet most libraries [...]

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Micah on April 25th, 2008

LinkedIn appears to have gained an enormous user base. The majority of people I’ve worked with are already there. It took a few people prodding me to sign up before I bought into the idea. But I was still skeptical. What was the point of it? I couldn’t quite figure out what problem LinkedIn was [...]

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Micah on April 24th, 2008

I flew down to SFO last weekend to attend Startup School. Lots of energy in Kresge and it was pretty easy to start talking to people. I even met a few fellow Portlanders. I was really looking forward to hearing fresh ideas from some great innovators of our day. Turns out that these guys already [...]

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