RoadsAfar

I picked up Jessica Livingston’s book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days the other day and started reading through it for inspiration. I had always noticed Jessica’s name at the bottom of Paul Graham’s essays in the acknowledgements section. Paul’s essays have been like a shot of startup adrenaline: whenever I need a little bit of entrepreneurial fuel, Continue Reading...

An extension of the well-known quote “the unexamined life is not worth living”: The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not properly a personality at all. He floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions–such a man is a mere article of furniture–a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being–an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock the humble servant of the air in motion. -Henri-Frédéric Amiel

So the iPhone SDK was released yesterday to much excitement. I’m downloading the SDK right now and have a couple of apps in mind. Michael Arrington on TechCrunch collects some of the limitations on third-party apps, stating that “for now, whole classes of applications are useless, or are significantly less useful than they otherwise would Continue Reading...

I’ve been working with some close friends on a business called JustNeem. The idea is simple: make high quality body care products out of this awesome plant called the neem tree and then sell them here in the United States. Buy the neem from Mauritania, Africa at fair market prices, providing jobs for Mauritanians. Finally, plant a tree in Africa for each soap we sell.  It’s a great product with a great purpose. We put together a JustNeem page on Facebook tonight for the company where we intend to post events, pictures, videos, and comments on our progress as a company. This is something of an experiment to let people see what goes on behind the scenes at JustNeem as well as what life is like in Mauritania. I’ll be writing about how this experiment goes over time.

So that site I announced I was working on way back in October? We finally launched the alpha. We’ve done our best to get something functional and orderly out there for you guys to play with, but we have a way to go before it’s really where we want it. If you’d like an invite, just ask. And send us any and all feedback you may have.Winedrip. Discover wine with your friends, your way.