Category: inspiration
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link: Pamela Fox – Voice coaching: What I learned
From Pamela Fox of Kahn Academy http://blog.pamelafox.org/2015/10/voice-coaching-what-i-learned.html I use my voice a lot. I give talks at conferences, I teach workshops for GDI, and I record videos for Khan Academy. But I’ve never loved my voice. I grew up with British parents, so I spent my life wishing I had an accent that sounded as…
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link: INBOUND 2015 Keynote: Seth Godin
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGFyrVgUPk&w=560&h=315]
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link: Pebble Watch
https://medium.com/backchannel/pebble-is-trying-to-run-circles-around-apple-a87d96590d3 – Tony Tam
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link: Ben Evans on blogging ‘Platforms, distribution and audience’
Platforms, distribution and audience http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/9/14/distribution-and-audience – Tony Tam
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Tech Businesses That Are Unprofitable Need To Ask The Hard Questions
Even though I work in high tech, I don’t really understand business that loose money during their entire existence. How can that be a business? I invest in a restaurant that is luckily profitable after 1 year. We offer a product people value and are willing to pay for. We have investors who want to…
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Learning Unconditional Love From My Mother
We are celebrating my mom’s 74th birthday today. She is a medical licensed pediatrician in China. When my family immigrated to the United States in 1980, her medical degree was not recognized here in the states and she lack the basic English to be medical doctor here. She took on a job as a seamstress…
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Has Lyft and Uber Disrupted The Restaurant Employment Market?
After owning the I Prive restaurant for over a year and helping run the digital infrastructure as well as posting job openings on Craigslist, I have a theory that a lot of people who used to work part time at restaurants are now working as drivers for Lyft or Uber. The hours are probably more…
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Performance On The Badminton Court Is 50% Mental Game
I have played badminton for half my life. Four years in high school, four years for the UC Berkeley club, then I picked it up again very seriously trained and competed for 3 years and now I play for fun with my co-worker and near my house. I love playing of course because of…
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Movie want to see: East Side Sushi
quoted from synopsis East•Side Sushi introduces us to Juana, a working-class Latina single mother who strives to become a sushi chef. Years of working in the food industry have made Juana’s hands fast—very fast. She can slice and dice anything you throw at her with great speed and precision. Forced to give up her fruit-vending…
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The Delightful Support Experience
(dinner at the restaurant that I own in Burlingame, I Privé ) / stepping up my high horse I would love to see this in the perfect world for a product support experience. 1) Takes me zero effort to report a problem, make this as easy as possible. Realtime chats, email. 2) I get an…