Author Archives: amol

About amol

Founder, builder, philosopher.

Phoning in rich

Brilliant nugget from the genius I was quoting about Herb Simon last week, this week he passed along a line from Meg Whitman. When she bought their company at Ebay for a lot of money, she said “I don’t want

Phoning in rich

Brilliant nugget from the genius I was quoting about Herb Simon last week, this week he passed along a line from Meg Whitman. When she bought their company at Ebay for a lot of money, she said “I don’t want

HireNurture

My buddy John Gannon and I are taking a new direction on mining email for productivity — talent and recruitment. Let’s see if we can improve the way talent gets cultivated. Recruiters and HR departments are just in primitive era

HireNurture

My buddy John Gannon and I are taking a new direction on mining email for productivity — talent and recruitment. Let’s see if we can improve the way talent gets cultivated. Recruiters and HR departments are just in primitive era

Product idea: AvatarMe

A service that automatically updates your profile pictures on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and any other place they appear like Gmail or Google+. It updates the pictures regularly so they change everyday. You can upload a bunch of pictures to the

Product idea: AvatarMe

A service that automatically updates your profile pictures on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and any other place they appear like Gmail or Google+. It updates the pictures regularly so they change everyday. You can upload a bunch of pictures to the

University Community idea

Building off Dave Lerner’s great post yesterday here is a simply awesome idea (and simply simple) for Universities. They already give alumni email addresses. Create an alumni about.me style page. Auto-create for all graduates. Just name and year. Then let

University Community idea

Building off Dave Lerner’s great post yesterday here is a simply awesome idea (and simply simple) for Universities. They already give alumni email addresses. Create an alumni about.me style page. Auto-create for all graduates. Just name and year. Then let

The time I hypnotized 500 people

  Watch the video here  

The time I hypnotized 500 people

  Watch the video here  

Work Awesome in Fall 2014

We are thinking of putting on a one-day conference type of deal about WORK. We just did this awesome thing Inbox Awesome (inboxawesome.org) last week and it was really good – the future of the inbox, with some really excellent

Work Awesome in Fall 2014

We are thinking of putting on a one-day conference type of deal about WORK. We just did this awesome thing Inbox Awesome (inboxawesome.org) last week and it was really good – the future of the inbox, with some really excellent

When We Are All CEOs / Re latest @pmarca

Love/hate robots? Read this // http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/06/13/this-is-probably-a-good-time-to-say-that-i-dont-believe-robots-will-eat-all-the-jobs/ Key bit // So how then to best help individuals who are buffeted by producer-side technology change and lose jobs they wish they could keep? First: Focus on increasing access to education and skill

When We Are All CEOs / Re latest @pmarca

Love/hate robots? Read this // http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/06/13/this-is-probably-a-good-time-to-say-that-i-dont-believe-robots-will-eat-all-the-jobs/ Key bit // So how then to best help individuals who are buffeted by producer-side technology change and lose jobs they wish they could keep? First: Focus on increasing access to education and skill

At Cinema Everyman

They are showing a 7-word poem.

At Cinema Everyman

They are showing a 7-word poem.

The NYC Specialized High Schools Test

Here is a nice piece that typifies the success stories of Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, and Hunter http://time.com/2866400/new-yorks-single-test-for-high-school-defined-my-life/ Here’s a key bit: “I remember stumbling out of the examination room, dazed by questions I had never imagined, many of

The NYC Specialized High Schools Test

Here is a nice piece that typifies the success stories of Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, and Hunter http://time.com/2866400/new-yorks-single-test-for-high-school-defined-my-life/ Here’s a key bit: “I remember stumbling out of the examination room, dazed by questions I had never imagined, many of