I decided that i needed to give you all (my readers) more music. I get lots of requests for recommendations and thus i decided to expand my minuature blogging empire a little bit. So, starting today there is a new site assciociated with Loo.me and it’s called ILikeThisSong.com
What is ILikeThisSong.com? It’s a site which [...]
I read a great article by Malcolm Gladwell last week called How David Beats Goliath. It talks about a Silicon Valley CEO who has never coached basketball before and how he takes a novel approach towards basketball strategy when coaching his 12-year-old girl’s team.
Realizing his girl’s team is lacking the talent needed to compete, he [...]
Many of you know of my love of The Wire. You can imagine my excitement when i heard from BroncosRule about the NY Times running a series where a reporter sat down and watched Season 5 of The Wire with real-life gangsgters. Columbia University sociologist, Sudhir Venkatesh, who has a new book “Gang Leader for [...]
First….Imagine a goat farmer in Kenya in 1958. A goat farmer. Now imagine that he has a child. Now imagine that this child grows up to become President of the United States. It’s just so incredible. Wow
Second….in my last post about Obama, i talked about the transparency that he might bring to the office. Now [...]
I did some changes today to the blog. I’m changing the name from Sideways8 to Loo.me. I’m doing this for a couple of reasons.
I really didn’t like having wordpress.com in my URL. It just seemed amateur and lame
Sideways8 is a good name but it didn’t really have anything to do with me [...]
This is an article/blog post by Fred Wilson who, in my mind, is one of the best VC’s out there. He’s invested in Feedburner, Tacoda, Twitter and others and i’ve found that his opinions are usually on the money.
He wrote a good post today about how his firm manages their funds and in that [...]
On the plane this past weekend, i read a great article about a guy named Bill Campbell who is known in Silicon Valley as “coach”. He’s a former football coach at Columbia who is non-technical but has a knack for handling personalities and managing companies and employees. He’s on the board of Apple [...]
