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I'm a venture guy, living virtually here www.igniter.com and physically in London, Canada.

I venture because it's what I do.

Want to say hi? You can email me at michael at igniter dot com.

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Nov
6th

Fri

The enemy of innovation is the phrase ‘prove it,’” Roger Martin says.

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ht @soccapital #projectx

What’s Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, Says Roger Martin | Design of the Times | Fast Company

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Nov
3rd

Tue

Great to see this happening in London - community capacity building - great work @MBaldwinPillar and @rtraction! The Pillar Community Innovation Awards | Pillar Nonprofit Network

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Nov
2nd

Mon

Testing ergotron monitor/laptop arms - looove em.

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First Drive: 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo is Stuttgart's quickest car yet — Autoblog

Oh my is right! HT @kewllewk and fyi @dwerks and all you other car nuts.

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Oct
29th

Thu

Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. Drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics, it describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected.

— Wow - an amazing resource for #understanding the connected world #changemedium » Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg (ht @timberners_lee)

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Oct
28th

Wed

EVIL PLANS is a medi ta tion about finally waking the hell up and going off to do something meaningful.

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This should be a good book by @gapingvoid ->

more thoughts on “evil plans” | Gapingvoid

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Oct
26th

Mon

You probably can’t overcome anything so pervasive as the model of work you grew up with. So the best solution is to be consciously aware of that. As you go into a startup, you’ll be thinking “everyone says it’s really extreme.” Your next thought will probably be “but I can’t believe it will be that bad.” If you want to avoid being surprised, the next thought after that should be: “and the reason I can’t believe it will be that bad is that my model of work is a job.

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Interesting concluding note by Paul Graham that the big difference is that what’s so different in starting something is that the job is not like the model of job our society understands. It’s a different way of doing things - a different way of working and living.

What Startups Are Really Like

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looove it… almostcool:

ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Newwork Magazine

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Oct
23rd

Fri

Provocative infographic -> The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful

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very cool music site -> fascinated:

22 Tracks rocks, I can’t get enough of this UI + curated sets. Each genre is curated by a DJ.

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