Author Archives: amol

About amol

Founder, builder, philosopher.

Invention: Inventors Playing Cards

Playing cards with facts about the future printed on them. Perhaps divided into tech, markets, problem spaces — Tech – energy is free Markets – 80% of the population is over 100 years old Problems – entertainment

Invention: Inventors Playing Cards

Playing cards with facts about the future printed on them. Perhaps divided into tech, markets, problem spaces — Tech – energy is free Markets – 80% of the population is over 100 years old Problems – entertainment

Shorter Future: Michio Kaku +/- Kurzweil (re: Jetpack Venture Capital)

Sameness in making predictions would seem to be a good thing. Maybe your prediction is right. I have read a few futurism books lately by Kurzweil and Michio Kaku. I have also read the Softbank “next 300 years” strategy statement

Shorter Future: Michio Kaku +/- Kurzweil (re: Jetpack Venture Capital)

Sameness in making predictions would seem to be a good thing. Maybe your prediction is right. I have read a few futurism books lately by Kurzweil and Michio Kaku. I have also read the Softbank “next 300 years” strategy statement

Sunday Postal Service

It’s a mini-revolution. Bell rang. It’s USPS. It’s Sunday.

Sunday Postal Service

It’s a mini-revolution. Bell rang. It’s USPS. It’s Sunday.

Jetpack Venture Capital, the playbook

Science and futurist investing is a big, big trend in VC. Maybe that’s obvious. Here is Thiel’s “late stage fund” investing in a futuristic technology for cancer. Nanotech that sends vibrating tiny jackhammers to cancer cells, then activates them with

Jetpack Venture Capital, the playbook

Science and futurist investing is a big, big trend in VC. Maybe that’s obvious. Here is Thiel’s “late stage fund” investing in a futuristic technology for cancer. Nanotech that sends vibrating tiny jackhammers to cancer cells, then activates them with

Freud, you romantic bastard

Tables and chairs, beds, mirrors, a clock to remind the happy couple of the passage of time, an armchair for an hour’s pleasant daydreaming, carpets to help the housewife keep the floors clean, linen tied with pretty ribbons in the

Freud, you romantic bastard

Tables and chairs, beds, mirrors, a clock to remind the happy couple of the passage of time, an armchair for an hour’s pleasant daydreaming, carpets to help the housewife keep the floors clean, linen tied with pretty ribbons in the

Phone rings. “I fucked up” he says.

[My batphone rings occasionally. It is awesome.] “I fucked up. We are out of cash. Not much runway left. I gotta get our guys to put in more cash asap.” Now this can be a long conversation. In the event

Phone rings. “I fucked up” he says.

[My batphone rings occasionally. It is awesome.] “I fucked up. We are out of cash. Not much runway left. I gotta get our guys to put in more cash asap.” Now this can be a long conversation. In the event

“Add a line of code to your app” SDKs

There are a lot of reasons to add a line of code to your app — all kinds of analytics and security and lifecycle 3rd-party services out there. The granddaddy is Urchin / Google Analytics that let you drop a

“Add a line of code to your app” SDKs

There are a lot of reasons to add a line of code to your app — all kinds of analytics and security and lifecycle 3rd-party services out there. The granddaddy is Urchin / Google Analytics that let you drop a

The grandest, most sci-fi corporate strategy of anyone except Google: SoftBank

Google: organize the worlds information SoftBank: happiness for everyone through information Because information stops loneliness. It sounds cheesily Japanese. But read the 133 page deck written by one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs here: http://cdn.softbank.jp/en/corp/set/data/irinfo/presentations/vod/2010/pdf/press_20100625_01.pdf Notable: – SoftBank has

The grandest, most sci-fi corporate strategy of anyone except Google: SoftBank

Google: organize the worlds information SoftBank: happiness for everyone through information Because information stops loneliness. It sounds cheesily Japanese. But read the 133 page deck written by one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs here: http://cdn.softbank.jp/en/corp/set/data/irinfo/presentations/vod/2010/pdf/press_20100625_01.pdf Notable: – SoftBank has

Overpaying

Why do people overpay? Understand that and you can be a better seller. The publishing industry apparently mints new novelists each year and pays them say $30k advances for novels. But each year, says my friend the novelist, a few

Overpaying

Why do people overpay? Understand that and you can be a better seller. The publishing industry apparently mints new novelists each year and pays them say $30k advances for novels. But each year, says my friend the novelist, a few

Go Trello!

We use Trello a ton at Knotable so we are psyched to see Joel announce grand plans. Check out some of our inspiration drawn from them here at the Knotable Knotes blog.

Go Trello!

We use Trello a ton at Knotable so we are psyched to see Joel announce grand plans. Check out some of our inspiration drawn from them here at the Knotable Knotes blog.