http://thormuller.com/netpositive In defense of irrational exuberance Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:07:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having had a benign spot surgically removed from my head last week, skin ailments are top of my mind. Carly at First Round caught my attention with this heartbreaking skin disorder she came across. Yes, those are his hands. It all started with a single wart. Here's an excerpt from a ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2008/08/27/skin/ I'm loving the songs by Fleet Foxes. They get raves for their live performances, too. http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2008/07/30/essential-new-music-from-fleet-foxes/ I used to read Edge.org religiously (an ironic thing to say about this most irreligious of online communities), but went for years without visiting. I just went back last night for the first time in ages, and there's still great content. I got sucked into this back and forth of ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2008/07/30/david-brins-call-for-sanity/ One of the most affecting albums I've heard lately is Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2008/07/30/haunted-by-the-voice-of-bon-iver/ From Brad Feld comes a recommendation for a new book, "My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley," which as we've been seeing speaks to an accelerating theme of younger and younger kids starting companies. Why? Because they can. This nineteen year-old ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/05/21/more-on-teenage-entrepreneurs/ It seems there are more and more of these teenagers authoring hits, starting companies or otherwise taking matters into their own hands when they find things that don't work for them. But this one is the best of all; a kid who took his frustration with chemistry class and turned ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/05/20/thirteen-is-the-new-twenty-five/ If you're a political fanboy like me, it's a helluva lot easier to obsess over the strategems of beltway game than search for evidence of actual leadership in candidates. This is particularly true at this stage in the election cycle when our electoral system focuses the national debate more ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/05/20/what-leadership-looks-like/ I knew Flora when she was an unemployed dot com dropout. Back in 2001 she was really struggling. Couldn't figure out what she wanted to do next, whether it was another tech job or something she hadn't thought of. You could tell she was something special, that the wheels were spinning ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/05/14/flora-grubb-has-mojo/ Quick note: I'm now blogging about the philosophy and process of building my new company and product from Demand Satisfaction. Swing on by sometime! http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/02/07/my-new-perch/ I prefer to avoid new years resolutions--for me, they're too tactical a response to the turning of the calendar. I prefer to select a unifying theme to guide me through the tumult of daily life. A strategic north star, a melodic refrain, a mantra. I limit it to one word, ... http://thormuller.com/netpositive/2007/01/01/looking-forward-to-a-year-of-satisfaction/