Welcome to the soundtrack of my life. (Remixes Welcome.)Tumblr (3.0; @adaugelli)http://adaugelli.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_jlJH65KR14?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Crave You (Tap Dance Remix)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/22394146321http://adaugelli.com/post/22394146321Fri, 04 May 2012 15:19:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3fkbosm001qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>SF at Night (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/22306686061http://adaugelli.com/post/22306686061Thu, 03 May 2012 00:55:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2wk3g4gY71qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>View from the office on Sunday (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21605880883http://adaugelli.com/post/21605880883Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:35:40 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6y8fzrE1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>There There. Cc @jcal7 (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21584162608http://adaugelli.com/post/21584162608Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:51:43 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6y7xGgI1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Speakeasy. NYC style (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21584161383http://adaugelli.com/post/21584161383Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:51:42 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6y5ubAa1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Aria (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21584159020http://adaugelli.com/post/21584159020Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:51:40 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6y2v7Rb1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Throwback breakfast (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">Instagram</a> at Brain Wash Cafe)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21584155225http://adaugelli.com/post/21584155225Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:51:37 -0400“<p>Creators or Fighters”</p> <p>In thinking about building good company culture, it may be helpful to dichotomize two extreme personality types: nerds and athletes. Engineers and STEM people tend to be highly intelligent, good at problem solving, and naturally non zero-sum. Athletes tend to be highly motivated fighters; you only win if the other guy loses. Sports can be seen as classically competitive, antagonistic, zero-sum training. Sometimes, with martial arts and such, the sport is literally fighting.</p> <p>Even assuming everyone is technically competent, the problem with company made up of nothing but athletes is that it will be biased towards competing. Athletes like competition because, historically, they’ve been good at it. So they’ll identify areas where there is tons of competition and jump into the fray.</p> <p>The problem with company made up of nothing but nerds is that it will ignore the fact that there may be situations where you have to fight. So when those situations arise, the nerds will be crushed by their own naiveté.</p> <p>So you have to strike the right balance between nerds and athletes. Neither extreme is optimal. Consider a 2 x 2 matrix. On the y-axis you have zero-sum people and non zero-sum people. On the x-axis you have warring, competitive environments (think Indian food joints on Castro Street or art galleries in Palo Alto) and then you have peaceful, monopoly/capitalist environments.</p> <p>Most startups are run by non-zero sum people. They believe world is cornucopian. That’s good. But even these people tend to pick competitive, warring fields because they don’t know any better. So they get slaughtered. The nerds just don’t realize that they’ve decided to fight a war until it’s all over.</p> <p>The optimal spot on the matrix is monopoly capitalism with some tailored combination of zero-sum and non zero-sum oriented people. You want to pick an environment where you don’t have to fight. But you should bring along some good fighters to protect your non zero-sum people and mission, just in case.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-5-notes-essay">http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-5-notes-essay</a></em>http://adaugelli.com/post/21557140480http://adaugelli.com/post/21557140480Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:48:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qwnvHL5t1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mission Day 1</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21397490655http://adaugelli.com/post/21397490655Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:21:31 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2po0eC2iP1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2po0eC2iP1qany9no2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2po0eC2iP1qany9no3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Coachella</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21369332095http://adaugelli.com/post/21369332095Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:17:02 -0400“Non-monopolies always narrow their market. Monopolies insist they’re in a huge market. In logical operator terms, non-monopolies tell intersection stories: British food ∩ restaurant ∩ Palo Alto. Hometown hero ∩ hackers ∩ sharks. Monopolies, by contrast, tell union stories about tiny fishes in big markets. Any narrative that carries the subtext of “we’re not the monopoly the government is looking for” will do.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-4-notes-essay">http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-4-notes-essay</a></em>http://adaugelli.com/post/21369313364http://adaugelli.com/post/21369313364Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:16:32 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2osckOyVz1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Breakfast of champions (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/21331631843http://adaugelli.com/post/21331631843Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:53:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19n42AKWB1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Secret to getting great advisors? Have a great F’ing product via @garyvee #sxsw (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19715663964http://adaugelli.com/post/19715663964Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:02:26 -0400sxsw<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19n3uMiTP1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tastemakerx party #sxsw (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19715658311http://adaugelli.com/post/19715658311Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:02:19 -0400sxsw<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0xj71coKN1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Morning Run. Wet (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19343556532http://adaugelli.com/post/19343556532Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:06:37 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0t4lid2s31qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Soundtracking / WillCall Party (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19223920652http://adaugelli.com/post/19223920652Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:00:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0sdqki0C21qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Afternoon work in the sun #sxsw (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19189882749http://adaugelli.com/post/19189882749Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:20:44 -0400sxsw<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0pj29RKIR1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wine (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19106232414http://adaugelli.com/post/19106232414Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:22:56 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0owv9wyWk1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Canadian Startups with @brian_wong #sxsw cc: @larslecke (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/19080953923http://adaugelli.com/post/19080953923Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:23:33 -0500sxsw<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0k4ivO1gp1qany9no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A&B GDC (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://adaugelli.com/post/18941576722http://adaugelli.com/post/18941576722Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:20:54 -0500