Theory of Social Hierarchies

The clearest way to observe a social hierarchy is to observe who dates who. People rarely date a person that occupies different level of the social hierarchy than they do.

Thirteen in the morning

If you ever stay up past lunch time till 1 PM you should be able to call it thirteen in the morning to underscore your achievement. Maybe when I get back to school I will try it out.

New Product Idea:

.Mac clone:
* combines:
blogging,
photosharing,
file sharing,
desktop publishing,
email,
calender

"Even though it's been my primary professional tool for over 13 years, I swear to God I still don't know what most of the icons do."
-Jason Pontin Editor in Chief of Technology Review

Reading "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"

I am reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I can't believe that they use this as a textbook for an introductory course at some schools. It's really a pretty hard book. I think I am going to have to skip a lot of the exercises and material if I want to finish the book in a sort of timely manner. A free online copy of the book is available. I'm reading that version right now, but I think I will buy it eventually. (If you look at the Amazon comments you will see that Peter Norvig and Paul Graham highly recommend this book.)

Paul Graham's Strategy for ViaWeb

This is what I claim Paul Graham's winning strategy for ViaWeb.

"We were a tiny startup, programming as hard as we could in order to put technical barriers between us and our competitors." -Paul Graham in "Beating the Averages" article

Wall Street Programmer

Wall Street Programmer is a blog by a Wall Street Programmer. He describes it as "Thoughts, insights and justified profanity from a Wall Street Programmer" which is a good description. His posting title "Finding a Programming Job on Wall Street" is an example of some of the great postings he has.