Hoi An, Vietnam at dusk.
this is stuff i like
Winnie Cooper all grow’d up (Danica Mckellar by Jeremy Goldberg)
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So Bobby Jindal makes fun of “volcano monitoring”, and soon afterwards Mt. Redoubt erupts. Susan Collins makes sure that funds for pandemic protection are stripped from the stimulus bill, and the swine quickly attack.
What else did the right oppose recently? I just want enough information to take cover.
Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (1953- ) [link] (thebusstop via peterwknox) (via soupsoup)Looking for a job? Be helpful.
There is no doubt that we are in a tough market. Lots of people have lost their job and many others are facing the risk & reality of losing their job. That sucks on so many levels.
Like many VCs, I am getting a ton of resumes and inbound interest for a variety of our portfolio companies that are hiring right now. I am doing my best to read them all.
The best way to stand out is to be helpful.
Be helpful to yourself and to your persective employer.
Bring thoughtful ideas to the table on how you could help the company or product. Tell us what you could do that is beyond the specific role if you want. Or tell us why you love the product. Or what’s broken. Do your homework.
I really don’t want to know what you did 20 years ago. I don’t want links to other people’s ideas. I want to know what you want to do, why you want to do it and how we will all be better off because of it. And I want to know what you are like personally to make sure the fit will work. Show me your work, your product, your blog, your tweets.
The same is true when we were hiring at our venture firm last year. When we were talking to Mo, he told us exactly what he thought about our companies and investing approach. He told us what startups he loves. What entpreneurs he respects. How he could help. What he would work on. He showed us a bunch of deals even before he officially joined Spark.
That’s the way to do it.
Mills waxes prosaic on one of my favorite pork products, popularly known in 8th-grade Spanish classes across the country as the chicharrone.
Cracklin, my favorite food (not to be confused with the song posted by S. Stratodrive called “Crackin,” which is amazing).
We had a nice time at JazzFest, although in my dotage I’ve grown fonder of the food and less inclined to stand in crowds to hear bands perform. There are some fun photos in the set, including many of my good friend Nehemiah, who lived and worked at the ranch with me for a summer and who just returned from his second tour in Iraq, this time in Ramadi embedded with the Iraqi Police.
But the most essential photo is this one, of a single piece of cracklin, which is certainly the great food of human history. It is like a fried cross-section of a pig’s skin, with a world of fat underneath, and it’s an intoxicating, alluring, repellant ecstasy of unhealthy deliciousness.
I see that many online like bacon, and I do too; but bacon is to cracklin what a bottle rocket is to the Big Bang. If you tried to make a meme out of cracklin, it would envelop the universe and bury all matter and energy in its essence. Evidently, FDA rules make it rarer than it used to be, and this has become the only political problem about which I feel pure revolutionary fervor.
