Brave Tech World

April 23, 2008

WED 23 APR

Hybrids are good By Marcelo Calbucci

 

    Let me just clarify my post yesterday about Hypocrite Day.

 

    If you read it carefully, what I'm saying is that saving the planet is much bigger than what any individual can do, and bigger still than a majority of individuals could do together. It's mostly on the hands of governments and heads of industries to fix global warming.

 

    Now, let's be clear that driving a hybrid is better than driving a non-hybrid (and biking to work is better than both). Local polution levels also benefits from hybrids, but it has no affect at the global level.

 

    Yes, we should do the right thing and buy cars that consume less gasoline, recycle, try to eat organic and non-transgenic food, bike and walk more often. But don't be mistaken that if all of us did that we'd be saving the planet, we wouldn't.

WED 23 APR

Too busy to write: nPost, Jackson Fish, Andy Sack By Marcelo Calbucci

 

    I have too much to write about and too little time since I'm preparing for the WTIA presentation tomorrow (I'm soooo unprepared that I'll make a fool of myself) and I'm heading for the UW Business Plan Competition in a few hours.

 

    Anyway, this is what I have to say:

 

• I had coffee with Andy Sack yesterday. This guy doesn't stop amazing me on his way of talking, his energy and the good that he's doing for the startup community in Seattle. Is there a State medal we should nominate Andy for?
  
• I went to nPost Network. Event was packed, fun. I was really impressed by RescueTime (way to go Tony), and with Alerts.com. On Alerts.com it reminded me of a time that we talked about our "personal assistants" that would find things that mattered to us, tell us of things that we care and wanted to be remembered, etc. Alerts.com has an aroma that resambles it. Finally, Nathan Kaiser just did a great job organizing the event.
  
• Lastly, went to Jackson Fish Market to see Hillel unveil his new baby. I've got there 7:50 PM and it was packed, the food gone and I've got a half cup of beer from a Keg and it was gone too. Oh well, the event was fun and I saw some old friends I haven't seen for ages. Hats off to the JFM team to pull out a launch party like this (this is how startups should be doing it).