Andy Wibbels

Category: General

  • Quora at It’s Best

    Lots of hype about Quora but the site excels when you get answers straight from the horse’s mouth:

  • Social Media and the Mom-and-Pop Shop

    Get Satisfaction CEO Thor Muller spoke at the Oakland Digital Literacy Center’s social media symposium for small business. Great excerpt from his blog post about small business and social media: [M]y father, a long-time restaurateur in San Jose, California, is currently in the process of resurrecting a restaurant called Lou’s Village after several years of […]

  • GoDaddy CEO Slaughters Endangered Elephant, Posts Video, Wrecks GoDaddy’s Brand

    GoDaddy CEO Bob Parson’s relishes being a polarizing figure with his tits-and-ass fake controversy approach to selling commodity services like domain registration, advocating for torture and now posting a video of him killing an endangered elephant while vacationing in Zimbabwe. PETA and other animal advocacy groups are changing their registrars and NamesCheap is making a […]

  • Data loss is so awesome

    Gimme a bit.

  • When to Blog, When to Tweet

    Chris Dixon on the difference: when something is subtle/ambiguous, blog it instead of tweeting it. some of my tweets about twitter’s platform strategy have been taken to be highly critical of twitter when in fact I love the product/company and just want to see them execute a strong platform strategy. via my personal blogging/tweeting rules – cdixon’s posterous.

  • Video: Barbara Ehrenreich Tears into Positive Thinking

    Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking, delusion, amorality, war and optimism as a form of social control. “How could [class and inequality] be a problem if anyone can be rich just by thinking about it?” Her words and concepts are illustrated by RSA Animate. RSA Animate […]

  • Harvey Pekar on Writing

    Famed underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar just passed away. His life was featured in the 2003 movie American Splendor based on his autobiographical comics series. Here’s a little bit into Pekar’s view on his As a kid, Pekar was almost as obsessive about comic books as he’d been about jazz. (And literature. And boxing.) […]

  • Why A Blog Won’t Help Your Business

    Veteran business blogger Rich Brooks unravels the ZOMFG BLOGS ARE MAGICAL fruit punch: A blog won’t help your business. Just like that StairMaster gathering dust in your basement won’t make you thin. Or a hammer won’t help you build those shelves if you don’t pick it up.   … When you start blogging it can be […]

  • How Pixar Installed the Creative Process for the Long Term

    Pixar is one of the few places I’d kill to work at. Their attention to creativity and extremely high product quality always blows my mind. I recently watched the opening of Up again and it is absolute perfection. Pixar’s leadership knows that they have to put the creative process at the heart of their company […]

  • Jerry Seinfeld on George Carlin

    I always love hearing stories of dedication to virtuosity: that you do the best possible job and push you skills to the limit simply because it feels good to get better at what you do. Here’s an essay Jerry Seinfeld wrote eulogizing George Carlin’s after his death a couple years ago: I called him to […]