jzellis

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by jzellis 12y ago
I never post on here, but as someone who has struggled with these same feelings since childhood, I thought I'd offer my perspective. I've come to look at it like this: depression is like an Instagram filter. (Wait, just...bear wit
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by jzellis 13y ago
Writing a book about tech and innovation in East Africa. Just got back from a month-long research trip to Kenya and Uganda.
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Finding Innovation In Africa(indiegogo.com)
3 points by jzellis 13y ago|0 comments
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by jzellis 13y ago
Fair enough, sorry. It seemed an appropriate response to the other poster's attempt at sarcastic dismissiveness, but I get your point. :-)
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by jzellis 13y ago
Yeah, that's part of the problem. There's zero accountability. And in Vegas, local government is only concerned with economic improvement -- everything else takes a backseat. We're talking about a city where the former mayor
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by jzellis 13y ago
Hahaha, hey Ryan, I don't know if you remember me or not. But we also worked for MedWeb at the same time a while back! I think you're completely wrong, though. It's not convenience, it's survival. But I also know you and
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by jzellis 13y ago
Honestly? I've never sought money from the DTP, nor do I plan to. I have lots of other contacts for VC if I seek it. :-) My point was that I don't need them, which is why I'm okay with saying this stuff where others in the co
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by jzellis 13y ago
Agreed, and we're actually going off of the Codecademy/Khan Academy course tracks for what we're teaching. But I don't think the moguls are creating more jobs here. They're importing people from elsewhere -- I'
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by jzellis 13y ago
You appear to be one of those tedious people who think entrepreneurship is the solution to everything. I doubt it's worth my time, but I'll point out that that's fine for people who have not only the economic but social capit
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by jzellis 13y ago
I didn't have it out for the DTP from the beginning, honestly. I was excited as anybody to see something new. But as I say in my piece, I'm disillusioned by the inability to work with the existing community -- not just the super-p
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Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk(evernote.com)
100 points by jzellis 13y ago|38 comments
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by jzellis 14y ago
You didn't have context. It's not an article, it's notes for a talk I gave. The audience were a bunch of Las Vegas hacker kids and entrepreneur types, who tend to be forty drinkers anyway. It was shorthand for "sit and chill outside". Which
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by jzellis 14y ago
Why fuck me? I mean, I'm just curious. If you're going to tell a stranger on the Internet "fuck you", it might be illuminating to find out why. And it's Josh. Josh Ellis. Since you sort-of asked.
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by jzellis 14y ago
OP here. (Well, not "original poster", but "guy who wrote this".) If anybody's interested: this is not an essay, it's my notes for a speech I delivered at Inspire, a monthly talk series put on by Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness project he
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by jzellis 14y ago
Technological skills. My target audience (literal audience; this was a speech) were, by and large, people in the tech sector.
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by jzellis 14y ago
Wal-Mart is, according to Wikipedia, the third largest privately-held corporation in the world, after Shell Oil and Exxon. And no, they're not a good model to emulate, that wasn't my point. :-) This was an eight minute speech, and the text
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by jzellis 14y ago
Absolutely agreed. Which is why I'm trying to specifically do that right now. (If it's not obvious, I'm the guy who delivered this speech.) But I absolutely disagree that web developers can't impact poverty in Africa (or, maybe more importa
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by jzellis 14y ago
I apologize if I implied that poor people will never be innovators, that wasn't my intention. I meant to suggest that those of us who already have these skills share them with people who don't...including, I probably should have explicitly