Stories by amichail

TIME Best Inventions 2006

How to Make Money Without a Job (mp3)

Forget IQ and EQ, Best Entrepreneurs Have High BQ

Y Combinator application deadline ambiguity: is it end of day April 1 or end of day April 2?

Anyone interested in trying out my book understanding prototype? We could focus on Founders at Work say.

What Kind of Genius Are You? (See why age discrimination is a bad idea for more creative endeavors such as startups.)

Of Men, Women, and Computers: Data-Driven Gender Modeling for Improved User Interfaces (pdf)

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Technical Program (paper pdfs available)

The Science and Art of Computation (why we need a new computing field to educate future entrepreneurs)

"Impossible is Nothing"

How to Improve It? Ask Those Who Use It

Do you need to worry about IP issues with respect to people testing your service and giving you suggestions? They might be doing so while at work for example.

Ruthless enough for a startup? "...these startups did things that I probably would not have been willing to do."

The Transactor Online Archive (This is what geeky high school students read in the 80s! What do they read today?)

If working for a company is so bad, how can you possibly convince people to work for your startup? Isn't this deception?

AJAX Lockdown: A new concept of data privacy and security for AJAX-based Web applications using client-side data encryption

Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans

Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds (Talk by James Surowieki, author of the book "The Wisdom of Crowds")

Why static typing? "the more things I can make the IDE ... do for me, the more my mind is able to concentrate on more important things"

Java, the evolutionary dead-end: "I've come to the conclusion that it's not really such a bad thing for Java to be."