February 2012
5 posts
Skillshare + COMMON Pitch NYC: Startup Bootcamp →
skillshare:
Skillshare is excited to announce that we’re a proud partner of COMMON Pitch NYC! We’re teaming up to host COMMON’s Mentor Day at the School of Visual Arts. On February 14th, COMMON is hosting a full day startup bootcamp at SVA. The day will include a series interactive lectures on the…
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How much of Settlers of Catan is Luck?
At Skillshare, we like playing board and card games. I used to primarily play poker, but since last year, have been playing Settlers of Catan a lot. It’s fun because it’s a combination of luck and strategy (like Monopoly, which is still one of my favorite board games).
In a constant attempt to improve, I’ve always asked myself:
What are the best resources to try and get? In...
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January 2012
10 posts
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21 topics, 21 days
One of my goals this year is to write more. I’ve been told that I seem to consume lots and lots of info/data, but don’t publicly vocalize my thoughts enough despite almost always having a strong opinion about the topic at hand. I tend to agree with that observation, and so, I’m going to attempt to over-communicate.
As part of this, I’ll be employing an exercise where...
WatchAngela Zhang, High School Student Devises Potential Cancer Cure
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Skillshare's Penny Conference 2012 →
In the 18th century, coffee houses were known as Penny Universities. For a mere penny, people entered a communal space overflowing with ideas, literature, intellectual conversations and inspired debates. Here, men and women came to improve their minds, challenge their mindsets, and build a roadmap for change.
Inspired by the Penny Universities’ unique environments, Skillshare’s first education...
“Be sure to put every letter of the alphabet in the URL. I want my site to come...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Life and Times of Skillshare Vol. 2 →
skillshare:
Our team is really excited for what’s upcoming for us in 2012. As we close out our first year in 2011, we’d love to share some of our company updates below.
OUR TEAM IS GROWING!
We’ve added some new team members (now 14!) since our last update.
Abigail Besdin (@avigeee) joins…
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December 2011
11 posts
6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011 →
Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. And if it doesn’t, it will be replaced quickly. For instance, in 2011 group messaging both took off — with more…
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Design is Horseshit? →
This post obviously caused a lot of chatter and controversy. (and by now, the original author clarified).
I’ll just say that I definitely agree with the statement in general: “Focus on value creation.” But this is a Product thing, not just a Design or Tech or anything else. Of course, if you build a site/app that doesn’t create value, then it doesn’t matter how...
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What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 →
Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447’s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash.
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My Holiday Wish List →
What do you think?
November 2011
5 posts
AMR (American Airlines) Files for Bankruptcy →
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Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away... →
October 2011
7 posts
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IBM names Ginni Rometty as new CEO →
Sam Palmisano did a stellar job at IBM, and I think Ginni Rometty will be a great successor.
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CMU HCI and Microsoft Turn Any Surface Into A Touchscreen
“… unless we experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong … the...”
– Why Do Some People Learn Faster? - Jonah Lehrer
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September 2011
3 posts
Carnegie Mellon's Face Recognition Study →
Interesting privacy concerns raised from the results of this CMU study on facial recognition
Clients From Hell: Checking the Traffic →
clientsfromhell:
Me: (over the phone) “Are you busy right now?” Client: “Sort of. I’m just checking the traffic in and out of our business.” Me: “Oh good. We’ve been having a good couple of weeks, haven’t we? What kind of figures are you seeing?” Client: “No one so far.” Me: “That’s impossible, I checked…
August 2011
8 posts
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“New York earthquakes are better because of our thinner crust.”
– @joeljohnson (via nycearthquake)
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Skillshare Scholarships: Philly + SF →
skillshare:
Thanks to Zach Klein’s $1000 Skillshare Scholarship, we’ve been inspired. Inspired to make it completely feasible for anyone to soak up the knowledge our teachers have to share. Inspired to provide incentives for people to connect over the quirky, specific topics they geek out on. Inspired,…
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Let's Start a Learning Revolution →
skillshare:
A couple of years ago, I became obsessed with the “education” season of The Wire, which was an HBO show about the complexities of Baltimore. It opened my eyes. If we can solve the education problem, we can solve a lot of other problems in our society - poverty, crime, etc since everything is…
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Skillshare Raises $3.1 Million to Turn Everyone... →
(by @jennydeluxe of @nytimes)
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Zach Klein's offering $1000 in Skillshare... →
zachklein:
Skillshare is a service founded by my friends Malcolm and Michael that allows people to host and take classes with each other. Anybody can register to teach a class about virtually anything, you can offer it for free or charge an admission fee if you’d like.
I haven’t taught a class yet (it’ll…
I BLEW IT: 11 VCs Regret The Huge Companies They... →
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My racism sense is tingling.
notracistbut:
Honestly, my reaction to the new spiderman thing wasn’t, “He’s black and latino?!?”. It was, “They killed off Peter Parker?!?!”. But then I remembered that I don’t even really care about comic books.
Edit: Comment Spotlight!
craftycupcakecatlady:
OH MY GOD WHAT ARE WHITE PEOPLE GOING TO DO WITHOUT SPIDERMAN
HE WAS ALL WE HAD
July 2011
12 posts
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