Stream of Ry

A conversation in AnyBeat that I wanted to save for keepsakes. AnyBeat is a new-old kind of social network that goes back to the roots of the Internet. The community is based around discussions and people are actually encouraged to establish a persona, which may or may not be identifiable to you as an individual. People can enjoy pseudonymity which is having influence/reputation without having to reveal your real life identity.

What do you think?

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“If a man shall lose pace with his companions, perhaps because it is he hears the sound of a different drum.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Today, I started out on the very grueling task of running a RoR app on top of Lighttpd. The added complexity I introduced was that the sqlite db I’m using is hosted over Dropbox. This turned out to be a not-so-good idea and I resorted to rsync-ing the dbs in Dropbox to another location accessible by the web server.

I’ll update this post at a later date but for now, this guide would immensely help you out. I’ll provide a step-by-step guide later on.

I was reading through Mark Suster’s Both Sides of the Table (just subscribed by e-mail yesterday!) and stumbled upon his article My life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist and as listed by Fred Wilson, Matt Blumberg and Howard Lindzon (all in Mark’s post) a CEO does the following:

• Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders
• Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company.
• Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.
• Don’t be a bottleneck (make sure you aren’t holding up people’s work)
• Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company)
• Stay fresh (be mentally and physically fit & attuned to what is going on in the world)

“As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing…Thick Skin.

If you fail, you need to start all over. As you start to succeed, you will hear from people like me…’armchair quarterbacks’ . If you really succeed, everyone wants you to fail eventually so you need even thicker skin.”

I liked Mark’s condensing it to just Chief Psychologist. I’m printing out his article (digitally, onto my Dropbox) for safekeeping.

So, I’m trying to run Tracks and I’m at running the server stage now. Running script/server -e production only gives me this:
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