Watching the little man eat lunch. It was a long week.

Don’t follow your passions

Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success, however you define it. -Mark Cuban

So good. I tried to say this, though much less effectively, during my "Going it Alone" talk (below). I said, "if I was going to do what I was most passionate about, I'd be back at the hotel sleeping off a hangover."

Hat tip to +Chris Messina for finding the +Mark Cuban quote.

Losing Patience

The onion has an astonishing ability to get right to the heart of things immediately following a tragic accident. Sad, true, and… amusing is the wrong word...

"‘I used to have to do this kind of thing maybe once a year, at most, but now it seems like every couple of weeks I’m rushing home to hug my family, be thankful they weren’t the ones killed in a horrific shooting or bombing, and assure them I will always be there to protect them and keep them safe. Man, it gets exhausting.’ At press time, Sifton was telling his children something like this would never happen again, a practice he has mastered over the past six months."

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Speedtracer on a Mac

I'm loving that extensions now work on Chromium for Macs. I've downloaded FlashBlock, which works just like ClickToFlash and a lot better than any ad blocker extension. I've installed a gmail extension and a host of others. But Speedtracer is certainly the most interesting.

"Speedtracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications." More than FireBug, it actually helps you identify the exact moment when you UI locks up and becomes unresponsive among a bunch of other things.

To get Speedtracer running on your mac, it just a few steps:

• Download the latest build of Chromium.
  
• Install the extension
  
• Open Chromium from Terminal.app like so:
  /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-extension-timeline-api