Infiltrating the B&N!
ekai:
Well lookit this… It’s kiostark’s book in the wild! (aka Barnes & Noble)
yay, kio!
David Lifson and I both had the exact same reaction to Andrew Mason’s letter: it sounds like Jeff Bezos. So here’s the 1997 Letter to Shareholders from Jeff Bezos. I’ve highlighted the parts that jumped out the most at me.
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1997 LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS
(Reprinted from the 1997…
Geo-Location Memory
I’m going through my life via Google Earth and screen capturing all the places that really stuck to me in my life. It’s fun. You should try it!
It colors the thread for you and has a color scanner (webcam?) for exact matches. Cool to see a new design of such an old machine!
Back in the day, there weren’t any videos for little kids on the internet. I decided to fix that with magic monkey bob and pink bunny. I made a few videos and then got obsessed with DIY videos.
The best thing to come out of this short adventure into puppet vlogging was a remix done by my friend Josh Leo.
Wherein I enumerate the elusive qualities of brilliant manifestos.
1. They are clarifying and mysterious at the same time.
2. They are inconclusive.
3. They leave thready holes into which the reader’s imagination can spin its own connections. Like good fiction, they leave much unstated. Like…
NYCResistor is good.
This month my hacker collective, NYCResistor, moved into a new space. It’s wonderful. It’s beautiful. Right now I’m in it and there is a line to get on the laser and there is a class going on. Stands are being built for the Arduino show and a giant LED megascroller is actually all lit up!
Also, as a bonus, the weather is absolutely beautiful in NYC right now!
