Sachin Agarwal // I love good food, good drinks, fast cars, photography and New York City. I've never owned a PC. I worked on Final Cut Pro for six amazing years at Apple. I always ask, "What would Steve Jobs do?"
I’m a cofounder at Posterous.
I love these guys. Awesome synth pop, reminds me of my favorites from the 80s.
They are an Oakland band, and the female lead is from Stanford.
Download their new song for free here.
Back in high school I was the president of the "Aviation club." I was genuinely interested in aeronautics and at one point thought that's what I would do professionally.
We did some cool events in the club, went to museums, tours of manufacturing plants.
We also did some lame stuff, like a paper airplane content in the gym. Doesn't seem to lame now though, this airplane is badass!
Wow I need one of these. My iPhone does not last a full day when I'm out of the office. I can't find them in stock anywhere though.
1) Great companies are constantly innovating and delighting their customers/users with new products and services.
2) Great companies are built to last and be independent and sustainable. Great companies don't sell out.3) Great companies make lots of money but leave even more money on the table for their users and partners.4) Great companies don't look elsewhere for ideas. They develop their ideas internally and are copied by others.5) Great companies infect their users/customers with their brand. They turn their users and customers into marketing/salesforces.6) Great companies are led by entrepreneurs who own a meaningful piece of the business. As such, they make decisions based on long term business needs and objectives not short term goals.7) Great companies have a global mindset. They treat every person in the world as a potential customer/user.8) Great companies are attempting to change the world in addition to making money.9) Great companies are not reliant on any one person to deliver their value proposition.10) Great companies put the customer/user first above any other priority.
Some really great points on how to build a successful company.
Amazon has announced a new option for users of Amazon Web Services called AWS Import/Export. This new Import/Export option allows you to mail a hard drive to Amazon and either have the contents placed into a S3 bucket or the current contents of a bucket placed onto the hard drive.
Pretty interesting. Even in 2009, you can't beat snail mail for moving massive amounts of data.
The increase in bandwidth we're seen in the past 10 years has enabled streaming video, even at true HD levels. Many products on the web exist now only because we have the bandwidth to support them.
But no matter how much bandwidth increases, we'll never beat snail mail since the amount of data large organizations need to move will also increase just as fast.
We've been cooking at home quite a bit, and end up dicing an onion most nights. I learned from my mom, and can do it pretty well.
But there was one trick in this video that I didn't know about: keep the root end of the onion on as you dice. It will hold the onion together as you cut in the different directions.
