Valley Chai

Mission peak at 7 am Saturday July 2nd 2010. 1hr 20 going up, 50 min coming down. Very windy, nose was getting dry. Got hot by 8 am.

The hot wind blowing from left to write was distinctly dry san joaquin valley air, creating swirling pockets of hot and cold air on the other sideof the [...]

i wrote on my bold predictions about silicon valley’s unemployment forecast a while ago, concluding that

next question is, what’s the peak? my hypothesis is that it’d be less than the 9.1% of 2003. the 2003 cycle was the dotcom bubble, pinching the Valley harder than the rest of the industries and regions. since 2008 [...]

the feeding frenzy that began a year and half ago, never really stopped. yahoo had an asset that the goliath wanted., and the boys from redmond are too battle-tested, too tech-savvy, too much enamored with the bounty and too powerful for the resistance to hold up. you knew how this movie would end.

the story is not [...]

if you are a facebook user like me, take a good look at your email inbox.

in mine, i noticed five alerts from facebook, a few twitter follower notices. couple of alerts from mailing list subscriptions, and a few bills and account notices, and a few notices about content from specific sites i like to go frequently [...]

ran through cuban’s post on blog maverick. the dude is eccentric but does come up with good thoughts once in a while. the main argument is that a company based on a free product is eventually doomed to fail.

i do agree partly. one nuance i’d like to draw out is that ‘free’ should be accompanied by [...]