We’re proud of what the new Digg team has accomplished since we took over the site in August. We released an iPhone app, an iPad app (both featured by Apple), an email product called The Daily Digg, and a site redesign. We doubled our users, publishers are starting to notice “the Digg effect” once again, and most importantly, users think we’re on the right track. As we look forward to 2013, we wanted to take a moment and talk a little bit about our approach to monetization.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.
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The Alchemist
In F1 car racing, if you look at the obstacles on the race track, you won’t get past them. The best entrepreneurs don’t see obstacles, they see a path through them. Sometimes breaking boundaries, breaking rules, breaking people to get them to this end. That can be a very ugly person in some ways. But it is that singular drive and vision that will leads to success.
Necessity is the mother of innovation, they say. I’m using the new fridge as a temporary safe while I leave the door unlock so that we can easily move the new mattress in. No self-respecting time-sensitive house thief would look into the fridge for diamonds unless he is a glutton looking for quick bites. (Taken with Instagram)
The closest I get to debauchery in Vegas is making phallic looking packaging like this then making inappropriate comments online to make conservatives cringe. (Taken with Instagram at Mandalay Bay Convention Center - Roofing Southwest Booth #2379)
You know your days of wild hedonism is over when you skip out on industry after parties and spend more time in soap shops than in the gambling dens. (Taken with Instagram at Las Vegas, NV)
Here’s some quotes for all ye alcoholics.
The simplest form of determination is sheer willfulness. When you want something, you must have it, no matter what.
This is at a hotel in Sicily called Cita Del Mare. Let me tell you, once of the most fun things I have ever done. And the view is spectacular. I need to go back! <3
