Saw Zulu Winter open for Polica last night at Brooklyn Bowl. I think I may have liked them better than Polica who happened to put on a great show and a great finale to their two month tour.
Source: SoundCloud / Zulu Winter
A particular problem is that he [Mitt Romney] betrays little indignation at any of our problems and their causes. He’s always sunny, pleasant, untouched by anger. This leaves people thinking, “Excuse me, but we are in crisis. Financially and culturally we fear our country is going down the drain. This guy doesn’t seem to be feeling it. So why’s he running? Maybe he thinks it’s his personal destiny to be president. But if the animating passion of his candidacy is about him, not us, who needs him?
Peggy Noonan on Mitt Romney, WSJ
There’s probably a phrasing of this that is equally damning of a certain kind of entrepreneur—the one that is pursuing a project not out of passion but out of a kind of megalomania to be the top dog in their own pony show.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
Silversun Pickups | Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)
In the spring of 2009, I spent some time visiting my friend Sergie in Los Angeles. I had to rent a car to get around and spent what felt like 60% of my time stuck in traffic. Since I didn’t bring any CDs, I mostly listened to local radio stations while on the road. Back then, the song they played at least 5 times a day was Silversun Pickup’s Panic Switch which has a wonderful chorus.
Bloody Mary is the new single of their upcoming album Neck Of The Woods out on May 8th via Dangerbird Records.
Source: SoundCloud / Silversun Pickups
Lonely? (Yes.) Worth it to enjoy the ineffable serenity of indoor/outdoor living? (Only kinda.)
(Photo: Joe Fletcher; Dwell)
Source: unhappyhipsters
Future Rock - “Nights”
Rock OUT! STS9 has really stepped it up.
Seriously Pandora?
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In reviewing my notes from class—Entrepreneurial Design—I took a moment to draft a chart that our professor sketched on the whiteboard: the trajectory of happiness an entrepreneur experiences when creating a startup.
Uniformed Happiness is the state that all of us revel in when conceiving a novel idea.
Informed Pessimism is the fall from grace that occurs when we begin to understand the implications of our idea: the complexities of its implementation. This is the turning point when euphoria has worn off and the work becomes hard.
However, if the entrepreneur can chip away at the myriad problems she will inevitably face and avoid Crashing and Burning, there is distinct transition to Informed Optimism.
Most end up Crashing and Burning; the AirBnB’s, Foursquares, and Kickstarters of the world enjoy Informed Optimism.
i like the framing of this but what ppl tend to overlook is that this occurs on a DAILY BASIS for an entrepreneur and not just the lifespan of the company/idea/project.
My life
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Barry Diller, chairman of IAC: I’m not saying that cable and satellite are dead.
Ali Velshi, CNN business correspondent: Good, because I’d be coming to you for a job.
Mr. Diller: Thats all right, everybody does.
Source: nytsxsw
This band is opening for Polica at Brooklyn Bowl in a couple weeks. Excited to see them.
Source: SoundCloud / Zulu Winter
