27 February 2007

Wisdom vs. Intelligence

Paul Graham on Is it worth being wise?

Intelligent people is not always considered wise. Paul's article tries to explain why that may be.

Most intelligent people also has this insatiable thirst for knowledge. One are never happy with what you already know.

22 February 2007

Joel on Customer Service

Joel Spolsky talks about customer service.

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16 February 2007

Founders at Work

Founders at Work - Stories of Startups' Early Days is a new book by Jessica Livingston. She is one of the partners Y Combinator, along with Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris. Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm that specialises in funding early startups. They have been behind ventures such as Reddit. Visit this wikipedia link for more information.


The book contains interviews with a number of famous IT related technology companies. The interviews with Joel Spolsky (also see Joel on Software) or FogCreek and Steve Wozniak of Apple fame is available online. The interviews are very interesting and the rest of the book looks just as good.

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