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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
When We Build - Wilson Miner
“Do or not Do. There is no Try.” Master Yoda
Faces of NanoWrimo competition: win a Kindle!
Hey NanoWrimees, I built an iPhone app that helps people log what they do, share it with friends & cheer each other on.
You can log anything you want, really. (e.g run:10k, swim:1000m, sleep:8h) But since the app was born out of one of the founders’ desire to keep track of his novel’s wordcount we decided to give back something to the writing community.
So that’s why we’re running a little contest as NanoWrimo enters the last week. We call it “Faces of NanoWrimo”.
Faces of NanoWrimo: use the DidThis iPhone app to upload your wordcount & mugshot to get a chance at winning a Kindle. http://www.didthis.com/nanowrimo
That’s how we feel working on our iPhone app.
TechCrunch Article:
Chi-Hua Chien of Kleiner Perkins:
«Health and fitness. “We all wish that we could lose ten pounds”, he said, and now there’s a device in your pocket that can seamlessly manage its owner (personal assistant theme again), encourage the user to exercise, eat healthier, whatever the case may be. It can truly manage the place at which you are paying attention to your health, your exercise regimen, and helping you to lead a healthier lifestyle. There’s a huge need here, Chien said, something that never could have been tackled in a PC environment, simply because the overhead of checking a website every day (as opposed to a mobile device that’s portable and always with you) is just unsustainable. It knows what you’re eating, what the caloric intake of that food might be, can advise you against consuming that third ice cream cone, and can tell your heart rate after a 5 mile run. When one combines that with display information designs and notifications optimized for a mobile setting — well, it’s enough to make an entrepreneur water at the mouth. Afterwards, Schonfeld asked Chien if these were actually three stealth startups that Kleiner Perkins had recently invested in, to which Chien laughed and said, no, but if there are companies out there making these products, Kleiner may very well be interested. “And those aren’t just dinky features … those are companies”, Chien said. “Those are companies attacking trillion dollar markets.” I also kept hearing a theme of automation in what Chien talked about, and clearly, at least in his mind, (though I think it’s in the minds of many others as well), that automated processes, whether they be customer service, healthy living, or retail processes, are going to be big not just because we’re lazy, but because they help us focus on doing the things we love.»
