It’s Sunday – Social & Soulful

My two favorite blog posts of the week are from the opposite ends of life's spectrum: "Startup Guy" and a "Spiritual MD". The "themes" are very similar. Here are the highlights. Helping, Fixing or Serving? --by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, DailyGood, Apr 16, 2012 Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life....

Wow! TubeDAC Revitalizes My Stereo — Sounds Amazing

"OMG the TubeDAC 11 is absolutely amazing!" In a nutshell the weak link in modern audio is the DAC ( Digital to Analog Conversion ). I knew this. It makes sense that a DAC miniaturized to fit into an iPod has to have some serious compromises, but I kept asking myself, "So what ... How...

Reading – Inside Apple

A big "Thank You" to @alanchiu for providing me with a signed copy. "Wow. It is amazing how little is known about the inner workings of Apple" --This was the overwhelming point that kept coming back to me while reading this book. There is plenty on Steve Jobs & "bullying". The review by Bob Sutton...

Lotsa Cool Entrepreneurship Activity @ UBC

There is so much cool stuff happening out at UBC these days. I'll go in reverse time order. I visited Moura Quayles' Comm 486J Design Thinking Course this week. Wow! The final project was to deliver a "workshop" in a real world setting. The students had to meet with a company sponsor, then develop the...

Wondering If Steve Jobs or Walter Isaacson Were/Are Fans of “Speaker for the Dead”

My friend Tim S and I are wondering if either of them were/are fans of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead. After re-listening to this amazing SciFi book I can't get this thought out of my head. It's like Jobs set up Isaacson to be his "Speaker" and Isaacson did a masterful work. On...