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The Interesting Products Out On The Internet Today Are Not Building New Technologies. They're Combining Technologies. Instagram, For Instance: Photos Plus Geolocation Plus Filters. Foursquare: Restaurant Reviews Plus Check-ins Plus Geo.

The Strongest Thing You Can Cultivate As An Entrepreneur Is To Not Rely On Luck But Cultivating An Ability To Recognize Fortunate Situations When They Are Occurring.

Those Words Are From Lynda Barry's Novel 'cruddy.' I've Carried Them With Me For Some Time. There's A Lot In My Life I Wasn't Expecting. One Is The Realization That I Stood At This Pulpit And Delivered A Reading For My Own Graduation...15 Years Ago. Unexpectedly, I'm Old.

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I Love Cities, And I Love City Governments In Particular. But In Politics It Would Have Taken Me 8 Years From Implementing A Policy Before I Would Get To See The Feedback. With Programming I Could Model The Same Policies And See The Impact Immediately. Technology Is A Far More Efficient Way To Test.