Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
He planned to build an app with an old friend from Austin, René Pinnell.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Its uncannily effective Internet search product had changed the way people accessed information, changed the way they thought about information.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Bricklin: I met Bob when I was a freshman at MIT. I was working in the labs as my student job—because a really good way to learn an area in college is to work on a real project in one of the labs.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
was a young chess master named Maurice Ashley.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
The Start-up of You Mind-set: Permanent Beta
Ben Casnocha • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
The CEOs of these other start-ups were no different from Ross, either. They had all read the same Ayn Rand books. These chief executives shared the same quotes on Facebook as he did: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” The leaders of these companies all preached the same verbiage as the Dread Pirate Roberts to
... See moreNick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Groupon—which is hard to remember as a disruptive enterprise today, but was then part of the first wave of “power to the people” internet companies.
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler • The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.