Category Archives: Random

Pizza making fun at the Automattic post-Holiday party:

Reblogged from Richard Morgenstein’s Photo World: Squished FlowersWell, I have hit the old scanner again.  Actually it is a new scanner, albeit a cheap one.  Cheap does not mean bad though.  It works quite well.  I am toying with obtaining … Continue reading →

Several months ago I became obsessed with a colony of trees in Utah called Pando Trees. Measuring 43 hectares and weighing 6,000 tons, they’re pretty impressive above ground. But what really matters is what is happening below. The interconnected root system is the oldest living organism in the world. No matter what happens above ground, that root system stays alive, and continually shoots up new trees.

It’s the perfect metaphor for what I love about Silicon Valley. It’s not just individual hot startups of-the-moment; it’s that unique startup ecosystem that continually shoots up new companies no matter how frothy or scorched everything above ground gets. That metaphorical startup root system is undoubtably located in Silicon Valley, but increasingly it’s stretching around the world, shooting up new colonies of trees in more and more uncommon places.

We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be the site-of-record for that startup root-system and everything that springs up from it, cycle-after-cycle. That sounds simple but it’ll be incredibly hard to pull off. It’s not something we accomplish on day one or even day 300. It’s something we accomplish by waking up every single day and writing the best stuff we can, and continually adding like-minded staffers who have the passion, drive and talent to do the same. Continue reading →

Reblogged from WordPress.com News: As 2011 comes to end, we thought it’d be interesting to look back at the events that made headlines this year, and a few of the bloggers who were there in person (or closely connected to … Continue reading →

Phil and I were walking by a garbage truck in Zurich, thinking that it seemed a little overkill to use a crane to lift up a little sidewalk garbage can: Then it got more interesting: