That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.

via Brain Pickings.

iOS 7 leads to more opportunities according to Marco…

Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything’s in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that’s crowded on iOS 6, and you’re one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and cheaper to develop than most competing apps.

via Fertile Ground – Marco.org.

Facebook and The Hacker Way…

“Apple is about polish. Google is about scale. Microsoft is about, well, 30 years old,” says ex-Googler and Box vice president of engineering Sam Schillace. “But Facebook is about innovation. They’re not necessarily optimized for elegance. They’re optimized for innovation. The idea is to crush everyone with pure experimentation and velocity.”

Others may not understand that. But they don’t understand The Hacker Way.

via How Three Guys Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook.

John Gruber describes our new-found familiarity of touch screens…

Look around you. Any street corner. Any office. Any shopping mall. Any restaurant. You will see people tapping on touchscreens. We all get it now. iOS-style computing is no longer novel; it is now the standard interaction model for personal computing.

via Daring Fireball: WWDC 2013 Expectations.

Kevin Rose on entrepreneur vision…

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don’t compromise — care about the details, the fit and finish.

via The importance of selling your vision.

Learn to say that you need help and don’t see it as a weakness. See it as a point of strength.

via Put Asking For Help On Your Daily To-Do List.

Growth is hard, but necessary: stagnation kills companies.

via Startup Culture Scalability.

Advice from Fred Wilson on how to build a business…

So my advice is not to rush into business model without first finding product market fit and then taking the time to lock down on a crisp, clear, and smart strategy for your business. From there business model will flow quite naturally and you will be on your way to success.

via A VC.

Can’t wait!

“Many people now say that innovation means a new category,” Tim Cook said. “Yes, we’re still a company that’s going to do that… We have some incredible plans that we’ve been working on for a while.”

via CEO Tim Cook Says Apple Has More Game-Changing Products Ahead.

Social networks — and the gadgets they run on — aren’t a distraction from real life, but a crucial extension of it.

via What Really Happens On A Teen Girl’s iPhone.