Small features

By rickColosimo / November 5, 2015 / Comments Off on Small features

Building a big Internet company is hard, and I guess not everything can be earth-shattering. Sometimes, developments underwhelm: who at twitter thought that “hearts and likes” vs. “stars and favorites” was worth engineering time? I have been similarly stymied by the changes in UI for changing apps in iOS versions. In iOS 4, a double-click…

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Bravery is for you

By rickColosimo / November 2, 2015 / Comments Off on Bravery is for you

“Bravery is for other people,” Seth Godin writes. He talks about how that just ain’t true. We’re supposed to make the choices that don’t require our kids, or someone else’s, to grow up to be Audie Murphy or Rosa Parks. We’re supposed to make a series of small, non-dramatic, slightly better for the world choices…

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Experiment – drunken haiku

By rickColosimo / June 26, 2015 / Comments Off on Experiment – drunken haiku

I am walking down the street, Chelsea market ahead of me What was that place I was last in? How many apple dollars are at risk right now? — ca. 2012 The secret of drunken haiku is that you don’t have to count syllables.  

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Poem #3

By rickColosimo / June 19, 2015 / Comments Off on Poem #3

#3 This vase doesn’t belong here. These flowers should be near you, instead of still with me. I wanted to plant the wine bottle in your apartment like a magic bean, sprouting lush growth, clearing the air all day in your absence.   I walked out of the bar, clumps of frothy crystal slipping and…

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