Ben Sima

  • Comparing apples and oranges

    Comparing apples and oranges In 1995, Scott A. Sandford, a researcher at the NASA Ames Center in Mountain View, California, took up a landmark study that proves, once and for all, that one can compare apples and oranges. In fact, they’re quite similar.

  • Tolstoy

    I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and […]

  • Patenting human genes?

    The Supreme Court is about to decide if corporations should be able to patent genes. Lets hope they make the right decision. Update: Wikipedia article on the decision

  • The Skill Developed in Meditation

    Via Ben Casnocha’s blog Meditation is basically a training method for your mind. When certain things happen to you, your mind generates a certain response whether it be happiness, frustration, anger ect. The way your mind has been inculcated is the path of least resistance and the path it wants to take, and will take […]

  • The Other Side

    If You Ever Feel Alone In This So most of us keep these struggles private, some of us are lucky to count fellow founders as close friends who we can confide in. Who we can talk to candidly in a circle of founder trust. If you’re a founder and don’t have this, make these friendships. […]

  • The Best Entrepreneurs Have “Less Ego”

    via Mashable | The Best Entrepreneurs Are Older, Have Less Ego A survey by the Founders Institute found that less ego and more experience correlate with success in entrepreneurship. Of course people will immediately assume that being older is a predictor of both of these qualities, but that incorrectly assumes causation (age ≠ experience). One can […]

  • Love, Open Source

    Built with love, internet style Via the footer on Discourse.org

  • Sock! and the question of “why”

    Sock is a brilliant mentor of mine in leadership, management, and relationships. He recently wrote me after I sent him an example of a business proposal I’m working on. I’m posting this mostly for myself (my website, after all) to remind myself of why I do things. Sock pretty much hammers the head on this. […]

  • 2012 “Lessons”

    So many of these “Lessons Learned in 2012” posts should be rather titled “Awesome Stuff I Did and How You Can Do Them Too.” They’re not really learning, just preaching narratives that fit their experiences. Narcissism is a bitch. Don’t learn from successes: the causal mechanism of success is often random, outside of our control […]

  • Takeaway from the Thiel Under20 Summit: Incredible things can quite certainly be done

    If there’s one thing to take away from last weekend’s Under20 Summit, it’s that incredible things can quite certainly be done. While working on a creative project, you undoubtedly come to a point where you don’t know whether or not what you’re working on will succeed. Panic, mild depression, and whole-days spent in bed ensue. […]