August 2008
5 posts
TR35 →
Every year I am blown away with the cool things people under 35 are doing.
On Missing The Boat Entirely...
From the It Can’t Be This Hard To Legally Download Music Department
For the past week or so, I’ve been trying to buy Kid Rock’s latest single, All Summer Long (indeed, summers in Northern Michigan are fantastic). The song has gone #1 on VH1’s Top 20 (and has reached #1 in many European countries), the record is double platinum, and the album was released October 9, 2007....
Improving Hybrids Through Formula One: KERS
I’m pretty far behind the curve on this one, but I’ve been doing some reading on KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) recently. KERS will be used in F1 starting in 2009, storing energy (which is lost while slowing the car) into batteries.
In the past, Formula 1 has provided some of the greatest additions in technology to automobiles, including:
Traction Control
Anti-lock brakes
...
Proving your concept by rolling out slowly
There’s a trend going around implying that you should launch something to every possible customer immediately, in order to maximize the number of users to your service. I saw it again today in a comment on Hacker News. This is backwards: the opportunity to focus on a single geographic region to prove the concept is invaluable!
A few years back, while an undergrad at UChicago, I took a...