Arach Tchoupani

"Daniel Kahneman: Sure. I think the most interesting result that we found in the Gallup survey is a number, which we absolutely did not expect to find. We found that with respect to the happiness of the experiencing self. When we looked at how feelings vary with income. And it turns out that, below an income of 60,000 dollars a year, for Americans, and that's a very large sample of Americans, like 600,000, but it's a large representative sample, below an income of 600,000 dollars a year...

CA: 60,000.

DK: 60,000. (Laughter) 60,000 dollars a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. I mean I've rarely seen lines so flat. Clearly, what is happening is money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery, and we can measure that misery very, very clearly. In terms of the other self, the remembering self, you get a different story. The more money you earn the more satisfied you are. That does not hold for emotions... "

I'm sure somewhere in Jobs' head he thinks that if he had been running Apple instead of John Sculley, the Mac could have out-innovated and out-marketed Microsoft through the late eighties and early nineties, and kept Windows from dominating the planet. In other words, it wasn't that Apple erred in following the closed platform strategy. They erred in that they had the wrong guy running the company. That may well be delusional, but the fact that AAPL now has a larger market cap than MSFT, twelve years after Jobs' return to Apple, has to give one pause. So in Jobs' mind, I suspect it's not that he's making the same mistake all over again. Instead, he's proving that his original decision wasn't a mistake in the first place.

I think it's not just somewhere in his head. I think that's his analysis of the situation. I remember him saying that it took 10 years for Microsoft to catch up to Apple and that's when Windows really took off.

Is there any doubt that if he was around in the early nineties, Apple in '95 would have been a very different company?

Wow. I need to tone it down I guess!

Great CGI Trailer. I think the game is made in Montreal.

Asking too many questions is a red flag. Any time someone starts asking a lot of questions I tell them to simplify all of their concerns into a single question, which I then ignore.

— Jason Fried

Concerned that the IT ecosystem in Canada might be snuffed out, the duo decided to reach out to some of the 300,000 Canadians living in Silicon Valley to see if any might be willing to join the C100 group.

Is this number right? That's pretty huge!

Interesting talk from the CEO of Evernote.

He goes through a variety of analyses in his post, which I highly recommend. But let me just show the results of  his analysis of college degree density for the 50 largest cities.

Interesting bit of information there. I wonder what the data is for Montreal?

That's just crazy.