Hi! I'm Jonathan

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:43:48 -0500

I’m rich! lmao

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:10:08 -0600

I’m rich! lmao

"There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in..."

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:04:46 -0600

“There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble is predicated on the idea that the education provided is incredibly valuable. In many cases that’s just not true. Here and elsewhere people have avoided facing the fact of stagnation by telling themselves stories about familiar things leading to progress. One fake vector of progress is credentialing—first the undergraduate degree, then more advanced degrees. Like the others, it’s an avoidance mechanism.”

- Peter Thiel on Education

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:26:58 -0600

"We partnered with Boxcar - so we have to pay for servers - we carefully reviewed what was a..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:01:28 -0600

“We partnered with Boxcar - so we have to pay for servers - we carefully reviewed what was a sustainable business model and opted to be honest about that instead of hiding the costs with new sales. Eventually that model will collapse. That people expect stuff for free will eventually become a problem for most developers.”

- Twittelator Neue: The most beautiful Twitter client for iOS | ZDNet

;)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:27:17 -0600

;)

"Mozilla’s push system will be especially useful for websites that want to send notifications..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:14:32 -0600

“Mozilla’s push system will be especially useful for websites that want to send notifications to their users’ smartphones without having to build a native mobile application.”

- Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox

Oh hello, Mozilla. Welcome to the game. We’ve been here since 2009 and we’re here to stay, too.

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:55:50 -0600

Look towards the bottom. Oh hey there.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:28:26 -0600

Look towards the bottom.

Oh hey there.

Not a developer? No worries — you can now build your own...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:28:19 -0600

Not a developer? No worries — you can now build your own provider for Boxcar without ever touching a line of code. I promise.

Go forth and deliver notifications. It’ll be awesome.

"There’s this weird area that you can fall into as a social consumer app if you don’t have a million..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:19:17 -0600

““There’s this weird area that you can fall into as a social consumer app if you don’t have a million users or more,” Culver said in an interview this week. “You have plenty to keep you busy, but it’s not enough to get advertisers interested, it’s not enough to make venture capital firms interested. So the question becomes: What do you do with a middling social app?””

- Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses — Tech News and Analysis

That’s the siren call of social - and why social is so very, very tempting but rarely works out.

Mike Tyson on intimidation. Boom.

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:37:38 -0600

Mike Tyson on intimidation. Boom.

"A good story simplifies a complex truth and makes it mentally digestible."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:39:08 -0600

“A good story simplifies a complex truth and makes it mentally digestible.”

- @rands

Welcome aboard, Kevin!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:30:19 -0600

Welcome aboard, Kevin!

(via The Real Startup Dogs of Silicon Alley | Betabeat — News,...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:51:13 -0600

(via The Real Startup Dogs of Silicon Alley | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.) - my boy Caesar made Betabeat!!!!! =)

So awesome!!! Desktop software “Plug Spy” - sends...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:47:10 -0600

So awesome!!! Desktop software “Plug Spy” - sends you a Boxcar alert when someone potentially tries to steal your Macbook Air!!!!

Yep. Awesome. #boxcar

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:33:24 -0600

Yep. Awesome. #boxcar

BOXCAR!!!!!!

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:34 -0600

BOXCAR!!!!!!

"Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:43:08 -0600

“Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more will power, more drive, but because they know productivity is a game of cat and mouse versus a childish primal human predilection for pleasure and novelty which can never be excised from the soul. Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push ups.”

- Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart

Coming soon: Boxcat!

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:52:14 -0600

Coming soon: Boxcat!