Zach Ware

Here are a few things I read on May 04 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Downtown Project Startup Buys 100 Teslas, Aims To Replace Your Car
• Las Vegas Startup Weekend: Can Tony Hsieh Create a Silicon Desert? | The New OPEN Forum
• 26 Top Time Management Hacks: – Barking Up The Wrong Tree
• Tony Hsieh makes another crazy bet, orders 100 Tesla Model Ss to rent to Downtown Vegas residents (Updated)
• Tony Hsieh’s Plan To Reinvent Vegas Transportation With Electric Cars | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Here are a few things I read on March 31 that I thought worth sharing.:

• The Depreciation of Great | @ksimm
• 25 Things I’ve Learned About Life – Musings of a Start-up Guy – Quora
• Creative People Say No — Thoughts on creativity — Medium
• Zappos’ New Downtown Las Vegas Office – Business Insider
• I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why. – Kyle Wiens – Harvard Business Review

Here are a few things I read on January 15 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Joe Downtown: Startups sharing offices, skills, ideas – Las Vegas Sun News
• Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions For 2013 | Glassdoor Blog
• The evolution of culture at a startup
• Tony Hsieh’s Las Vegas Experiment – Business Insider
• Co-working project aims to bring artists and entrepreneurs to downtown Las Vegas – www.ktnv.com

Here are a few things I read on November 02 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Soft
  Yet we’re soft. We quit early. Settle. Complain. Think we deserve a break. Make lazy, self-serving assumptions. Try to get the most for the least work.
• What Happens in Brooklyn Moves to Vegas – NYTimes.com
• The Most Revealing Interview Question – Referly Blog
  For senior positions, I will ask a question early in the 5 minutes that is a complete tangent and has little to do with their goal. A star candidate will politely refuse to go down this rat hole and insist that we stay on topic. This seems unfair since an they’re in an interview and just doing what they’re being asked. In reality though, the very same thing happens often in real work. Even mangers do not innately know what is most important about a topic, and it’s key to have confident people on the team that add focus to conversations.
• Never Be Like Them | RyanHoliday.net
  I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.
• Quora – Steve Jobs: What was it like to be friends with Steve Jobs? – Quora
  The one thing I remember from the book is that nobody would organize his bachelor party…This can be the price for genius.

Here are a few things I read on September 27 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Zach Ware of the Downtown Project: It’s All About Community – YouTube
  TechCocktail. They actually made a counter to count (and ding) every time I said community. Love it!
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh On Leadership – Business Insider
• Put Your Shoulders Down The Mountain: Why Mastering A Skill Means Falling With Precision | Fast Company
  How do you build an organizational culture of fearless skiers willing to take thoughtful risks in order to improve–especially when the goal is to encode success?
• What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology // ben’s blog
  Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say: “I didn’t quit.”
• Tech Cocktail Opening New Office In Las Vegas
• How to Repay Your Mentors | RyanHoliday.net
  This is required reading.

Here are a few things I read on August 21 that I thought worth sharing.:

• What Would Happen If The Entire World Lived Like Americans? | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
• Lawyers of Big Tobacco Lawsuits Take Aim at Food Industry – NYTimes.com
  Someone actually thought Nutella was good for you?
• 6 things I do to be consistently happy
• Las Vegas’ former city hall to look greener, cleaner and livelier under Zappos – The Political Eye – ReviewJournal.com
• Modern life is killing us – Salon.com
• Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors | Greatist

Here are a few things I read on August 10 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Random Observations: Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn?
• How to run your own race | Escape From Cubicle Nation
  Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.
• Savages | RyanHoliday.net
  In 19th century dog fighting, bull dogs weren’t the strongest or most aggressive dogs, but the fat and extra skin around their neck made it harder for other dogs to tear their throat out. Dogs could clamp down on it, but they couldn’t kill. That’s fucking savage. There’s a lesson there.
• Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (Part One) – NYTimes.com
• How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

Here are a few things I read on August 08 that I thought worth sharing.:

• At Least I Fucking Tried
• City hall demolition under way – FOX5 Vegas – KVVU
• Emptyage — Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
• Demolition work begins on old Las Vegas City Hall – News – ReviewJournal.com
• New Research Suggests Immersive Urban Parks Work Best

Here are a few things I read on August 05 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Voting, the hive mind and luck
  The most striking finding was that if a few early listeners disliked a song, that usually spelled its doom. But if a few early listeners happened to like the same song, it often went on to succeed.
• Queuing Theory: Why is airplane boarding always a mob scene? – Quora
• A Real Internet Of Things For The Developing World (And Burning Man) | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
  We’re transforming shipping containers into innovation centers.
• Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world? | Valve
• 2020 Visionaries: Ryan Chin, Sustainable Urban Mobility in 2020, THE FUTURIST magazine, July-August 2010

Here are a few things I read on August 03 that I thought worth sharing.:

• Watch the American Landscape Change as Seen From Space | Wired Science | Wired.com
• Should I send this email?