Twitter needs to give us a better API for getting “favoriting” activity for a tweet.

I once started swimming after a (small) shark underwater with a disposable camera before realizing this was likely a Bad Idea. (thanks Shawn)

This is why I agreed that trading Pineda made sense. Like Steve, I’m sorry to see him go down.

The next thing you need to do is to configure as many real-time notifications as possible.

(thanks Donnie)

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface.

This looks super useful! (thanks Greg)

I love the shot of all the models. (thanks Eric)

We run lean at Crowd Favorite too, but not to this extent. Definitely a few ideas I can and will borrow here. (thanks Steve)

This looks more complicated than the merge workflow. It is. It is not hard. It is valuable.

We have our pull command set up to pull --rebase, this is a great overview of why you (almost) always want to rebase. (thanks Sandy)

Definitely agree with this approach; it’s pretty much how we designed FavePersonal. (thanks Rona)

How about that? (thanks Shawn)

The students who were initially praised for their effort worked hard at figuring out the puzzles. Kids praised for their smarts, on the other hand, were easily discouraged. Their inevitable mistakes were seen as a sign of failure: Perhaps they really weren’t so smart. [...] In contrast, kids praised for their hard work were more interested in the higher-scoring exams. They wanted to understand their mistakes, to learn from their errors, to figure out how to do better.

My aunt (an award winning teacher) told me about this a few years ago and I’ve tried to make sure it colors how I communicate with my daughter.

(thanks Ben)

I can of course make no authoritative claims here, but I have noticed one overarching theme among smart people: they ask questions. When someone explains something new to me, I’ll usually just nod my head like I know what they’re talking about. If I don’t understand something, I’ll just Google it later. After all, I don’t want this person to think I’m a moron. Smart people are different. If they don’t understand something, or even if they think they understand something, they’ll ask questions.

Another reason I think many smart people ask questions (besides to understand something better) is that they are engaged listeners and tangental thinkers. The new ideas they are receiving spark connections to existing things they know; help them see areas where they are missing the necessary details for a connection to something else, etc. This process and natural curiosity makes it easy to come up with questions. (thanks Rands)

A must-read. (thanks Sean)

However, over the past 10 years or so, an entrepreneur has implicitly come to mean someone who creates. A maker.

Interesting. The definition that has taken shape in my head is completely the opposite. “Entrepreneur” only means a “maker” to me in the context of a creating a business for an exit. It holds very little to me in terms of being a creator of products, services, etc. As you can imagine, I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur. I think of myself as a developer. But the main reason for that is the attachment to the “maker” concept.

As Dave and I explored this afternoon, “entrepreneur” and “startup” may be words that have very different meanings to different people.

I wasn’t on “teh Twitters” much this week so I missed this when everyone was linking to it. Instead I found it through a Percolate email because Shawn and Brent both linked to it. This is one of the first times Percolate has worked out in the manner for me – definitely a moment of traction.