• Rapid Social Response: Auto-response for Twitter. The name is inspired by Jeremiah Owyang's 18 Use Cases of Social CRM
• pyngram (open source): A simple n-gram calculator in python (background story). pip install pyngram

1. Seven Traits of Successful Product Managers (Michael on Product Management & Marketing
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers - Webinar with Alyssa Dver
3. How to be a GREAT Product Manager (Boxed Set with Bonus Features!)
4. How To Be A Good Product Manager
5. All About Product Management
6. Silicon Valley Product Management Association
7. The Agile Product Manager
8. Product Marketing Blog by Steve Johnson (Pragmatic Marketing)
9. (The) Pragmatic Marketing
10. Product Development and Management Association
11. Michael on High-Tech product Management & Marketing
12. San Diego Product Management Association

My Google App Engine scribble wall: http://liew.appspot.com (Update: Google sign-in now *required*—you can thank the spammers)

1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

1. Hockeyfights.com
2. NHL's channel on Youtube
3. San Diego Ice Arena
4. Anaheim Ducks

1. Aircraft Design
2. Securing Internet Communications
3. Routing Traffic Through the Internet
4. Eye-dentifying Yourself
5. Storing Fingerprints
6. Deciphering DNA

I developed an application code-named Lexi-Rep (Lexical Reputation) used internally by security researchers at the Websense Security Labs. My research was demo'd by my CTO at a closed door security summit on the Yahoo campus. Read more here: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=147581&f_src=darkreading_gnews

1. How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head for $600.00
2. Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner
3. 747 Simulator - Virtual Flightdeck Project
4. How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
5. K3PGP Laser Radar Setup
6. Cloudbounce Technical Information
7. Don K.'s Laser Page
8. Getting Started in Laser DX
9. Build your own electronic lock with a key card
10. Building an infra-red transmitter for your PC, the $1 solution

1. Hitchhiker's Guide to Biomorphic Software
2. The Java Language Specification
3. Timeline of the future (.PDF)
4. How To Think Like A Computer Scientist
5. SPARC Architecture Manual (.PDF)
6. Far Eastern Economic Review
7. A Way to Revolutionize x86 CPU Performance How multimedia and non-multimedia applications can benefit from MMX, SSE, and SSE-2
8. Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory
9. Disasters of programming errors in real life
10. OpenVMS user's manual
11. An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point
12. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (.PDF)

List of people, and some links to articles that captures slices of what I like about them.

Elon Musk

• Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
• [...] barely scraping by on as little as $1 a day with part-time and summer jobs

Max Levchin

Peter Thiel

Shai Agassi

• At his first executive board meeting at SAP, a company that had grown dominant by moving slowly and conservatively, Agassi suggested nearly a dozen heretical ideas. He said SAP should give away its hardware and software for free, and just charge for IT support. He said SAP should make its database business open source to undermine Oracle. The other board members laughed: The new kid was a cutup! But they stopped when SAP cofounder Hasso Plattner looked around the table and said, "He's the only guy making sense here."
• At a Jerusalem press conference in late January, [Ehud] Olmert beamed down at Agassi, who was sitting in the front row: "In order to bring about this dramatic change, sometimes we need a boy like in the fairy tales to say, 'Look, the emperor has no clothes.' We can all see that for ourselves, so how come we haven't said so? And this boy comes along and puts things in motion to bring about change. And the boy in story this, and he really is a boy, practically, but he has achieved more than many have adults is, of course, Shai Agassi."

Steve Jurvetson

Paul Graham

• [...] we're going to succeed no matter what. Raising more money just lets us do it faster.

Ann Winblad

• A quote From Founders at Work: You'd think that everybody would want to have our jobs. We've all been handsomely rewarded. The stories are not like, "Hey, we had patrician backgrounds and silver spoons, and we bought our way into this" We just "thought" our way into these industries. The power of thought and math and science and computing, you're given that for free -- it's a choice you can make. You take that choice, and it gives you sort of a magic wand to be a captain of an industry that's still fairly young, that's driving the whole world economy
• Think like a big dog and then figure out how you find leverage to get there. Put your strategy up there and then see "Where's my gap" to get to this aspirational goal

Carly Fiorina

• The Dynamics of Change and Fear

Tina Seelig

• Every problem is an opportunity

Keith Ferrazzi

Chris Gardner

• Eventually, the father and son began to scrape by in a $10-a-night motel, while Gardner continued to study for his broker's exam. "I was homeless, but I wasn't hopeless," he says. "I knew a better day was coming." [...] his persistence in cold calling earned him the attention of executives at Bear Stearns, who offered him a job.

Timothy Sykes

• These are the July results of a hardworking internet entrepreneur, think 16-20 hours days, including weekends; it's all about how bad you want it, f$%^ the 4-hour work week you fat lazy American slobs, working hard, and honestly, is the path to righteousness and fulfillment..

Paulo Coelho

• Personal Legend
• [...] "perhaps your fight has come to an end." The warrior feels pain and confusion upon hearing these comments, for he knows that he has not come as far as he wished. But he is determined, and does not abandon that which he set out to do. Then, when he least expects it, a new door opens.
• [...] and then we come face to face with loneliness, unfamiliar bends in the road, mechanical problems with the bike. And after a while, we start to ask ourselves if it's really worth all the effort. Yes, it is. It's just a question of not giving up.
• Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere
• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Steve Wozniak

• "We had dreams that computers would improve education and improve communication and help us achieve a lot of tasks. A lot of us in our group understood it," though their vision didn't extend as far as today's broadband-connected Internet. "What we were doing was not (figuring out) how build a computer, it was how you get a computer that fits into the home. Price, looks--a lot of that stuff. It gave us more passion. We used the word 'revolution' all over the place.

David Maister

Mark Cuban

• I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky. Once I didn't have to pay the bills, the best challenges were to come up with stuff that people said couldn't be done. [...] I like to look at industries I just know are messed up. Everyone's looking in one direction and I look in the other.
• In the past people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong I'm wrong. People are afraid to put our their opinions and get push back.
• I'll tell you what I learned from Bobby Knight: everybody's got the will to win but when it comes time to doing something, it's always about someone else. Not many people have the will to prepare. You got to be willing to know your product and environment better than anybody. No matter what you do there is someone out there trying to kick your ass. You got to be the smartest guy in the room about your product. Then you need to have a revenue source. You need a company with a revenue to make money. Concept, competition, and where the money is — plus something you love doing. I've never had a day of work. When I die I want to come back as me.
• Also, before you have kids and get a mortgage, thats the time to go after it. I can't tell you how many girlriends I've had that said "me or the business", and I said "whats your name?"
• Young Money: What is the key to recognizing a profitable business opportunity?
  Mark Cuban: Knowing the industry very well. Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
• In basketball you have to shoot 50pct. If you make an extra 10 shots per hundred, you are an All-Star. In baseball you have to get a hit 30 pct of the time. If you get an extra 10 hits per hundred at bats, you are on the cover of every magazine, lead off every SportsCenter and make the Hall of Fame. In business, the odds are a little different. You don't have to break the Mendoza line (hitting .200). In fact, it doesnt matter how many times you strike out. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once. One single solitary time and you are set for life. That's the beauty of the business world.

Jacques Brel (April 8, 1929 - October 9, 1978)

George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932)

Randy Pausch (October 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008)

I'm an ENTJ!

From Wikipedia: ENTJ (Extraversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Judging) is an acronym used in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) publications to refer to one of the sixteen personality types.

ENTJs often excel in business. They are assertive, outspoken, confident, outgoing, energetic, charismatic, fair-minded, and unaffected by conflict or criticism. However, other traits may lessen the impact of their strengths. They may appear argumentative, confrontational, insensitive, intimidating, and controlling. They can overwhelm others with their energy, intelligence, and desire to order the world around them.

Portrait of an ENTJ.