Shameless plug: this blog is available for Kindle. In fact, it has been available for Kindle since before your grandmother was born. I’m rarely an early adopter of anything, but I was pretty into the Kindle when it first came out and I made sure to get the maximum use out of it. Now that [...]
I searched on Match.com for women age 22-33 within 20 miles of San Diego. There were 18 results listed on the first page. I clicked on every profile from that first page. Listed below is a single quote from each of those profiles. “I’m looking for someone who makes me laugh!!” “I’m pretty outgoing and [...]
Today, I’d like to tell you about an iPhone app which has consumed entirely too much of my life over the past two days. The app is called “Angry Birds.” It is a nifty little physics game, and it is incredibly addictive. Here’s the storyline: You are a flock of birds. Little green pigs stole [...]
Sometimes I think to myself, “Ryan, your blog is truly a shining beacon in a dark internet sea of dead Xangas. It is truly inspirational how you manage to deftly relate every tangential aspect of your life back to your business school theme, even when the connection is tenuous.” But just when I start getting [...]
As an MBA student, I see presentations almost daily. It’s rare that I see a presentation that’s so outstanding that I feel the need to tell others about it simply on the basis of its effectiveness in communicating information. I saw one on Wednesday evening. The entrepreneur challenge is a series of speakers culminating quarterly [...]
This week, in our Lab to Market intro course, we were reading about creating new market space (as contrasted with capturing a share of an existing market). Buried in one of our articles was a sidebar about Quicken software. The sidebar contained what I immediately identified as the worst graphs in the entire world, reproduced [...]
A friend of mine was having issues with TicketMaster, surprise surprise. The situation: she meant to buy tickets for the Thom Yorke April 15th show, but bought them for April 14th instead. She called TicketMaster customer service to ask if they could switch the date. They could not, but they told her that she had 24 [...]
The Rady Student Board held elections over the past few weeks. I was selected by my classmates to be the new CEO, and I’ll be taking over in the spring! I’m pretty excited about this development, despite the fact that it confers upon me all the responsibilities of an executive without any of the compensation. [...]
I forgot to preregister for spring quarter last week, and so my scholarship payment was temporarily put on hold. Unfortunately, I still had to pay my rent for on-campus housing, and I did not realize that UCSD’s online payment system (a) is one-click and (b) does not take partial payments. This resulted in me making [...]
Since Saturday’s post, there have been quite a few developments on the UCSD race relations front. Sadly, the developments have been weighted more towards escalating tensions than diffusing them, even though it seems that most students would basically like to see the issues be resolved and have the fracas die. Again, I really think that [...]
My friend Kelly makes cards and started her own craft supply business! Support entrepreneurship in action.