Happy Year folks! Let’s show 2012 what we’re all made of!
The Rule of Law Rules
“This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. The law which we obey includes the final rulings of the courts, as well as the enactments of our legislative bodies. Even among law-abiding men few laws are universally loved, but they are uniformly respected and not resisted.
Americans are free, in short, to disagree with the law but not to disobey it. For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”
— JFK on the University of Mississippi Integration Issue (1962)
Listen to the original radio broadcast here:
Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books
Instead, try Founders at Work (thanks @zencoder)
Jack Dorsey outlines three core takeaways from his experiences building and launching Twitter – and more recently – Square, a simple payment utility. 1) Draw: get your idea out of your head and share it, 2) Luck: assess when the time (and the market) is right to execute your idea, 3) Iterate: take in the feedback, be a rigorous editor, and refine your idea. plus 1: Know when to stop. from %99Jack Dorsey: The 3 Keys to Twitter’s Success
Did you know? 4.0
If you aren’t sold on Social Media yet…
Nowadays, unless your speaking to someone born before 1950, you shouldn’t have a hard time explaining the power and relevance of the social web.
But this cool flash app by Gary Hayes displays some strong metrics that might still dazzle the most seasoned Social Media evangelist.
Gary explains more on his blog post.
Social Media platforms need not be on the web
I thoroughly enjoyed Ji Lee and his talk at the 99% conference:
Ji Lee’s talk at the 99% Conference taught me a few things and validated some of my pre-existing beliefs:
1. Occupational demands get in the way of invention and innovation
the innovator’s dilemma, doing the work that feeds you prevents you from creating great things.
2. You can’t wait for others to jumpstart the changes that YOU desire. You need to do it yourself.
3. Social Media can manifest itself in venues other than on the web.
4. Crowdsourcing —people are truly itching to share.
Thanks to Emily Chang for her blog post where I encountered this first.
