Category: Review

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

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Nice read on various topics reflecting Peter Thiel’s thought and his thinking process. The downside of book is it doesn’t tell anything about how (how would you even expect to have hows by just reading a book) the tones & stances are somewhat different chapter by chapter and those combined doesn’t seem to fit well.

Anyhow, good & solid  read, but glad it is not like $30-$40 book 🙂 but kind of thing on how Peter Thiel views on business is pretty much well known if anyone has been following some articles in news & megazines.

뭐 말그대로 잘읽었고.. 마냥 새로운건 없는듯.. 소문난 잔치 건질게 많지 않듯이.. 내가 궁금한건 Paypal에 묻지마식으로 투자한 한국 투자주체는 누구였을까? 🙂

2015.2

 

 

 

 

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room @ Seattle

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Starbuck’s response to it being too generic. As a business man, I highly regard their effort to keep the market position and making the pie bigger, but it hurts my wallet 🙂

1124 Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98101

소문난 가게인 시애틀의 Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room을 우연한 계기로 드디어 직접 방문..

나름 Starbucks의 차별화된 brand(aka Toyota의 Nexus), 특이한 setting과 고급화된 coffee로 Flagship Store를 지향한것 같은데, 여러 생각이 들었다.

– 그냥 커피 미니 공장을 도심에 차렸구나, 가내 수공업으로의 귀환인가?

– 스타벅스도 먹고 살기 힘들구나 근데 이 비싼동네에 공장을 겸비한 가게를 운영하려면 가게 P&L은 나올까?

한편 너무 일반화되어가는 – 그래서 동네의 중소규모 roastery에 시장을 잃어가는-  현상에 대한 Starbucks의 전략인듯 싶다. (요즘 Starbucks는 재미난걸 많이 하는듯 한참전의 mini espresso 머신 장사, 얼마전부터 promotion하는 Flat White부터해서(맛은 괜찮다만 Latte보다 1불을 더받으면?) 오늘 email을 보니 coffee subscription까지 시작해주셨다)

암튼 서설이 너무 길었고 뭐 값은 비싼데 coffee맛은 별 차이를 잘 모르겠다.. 🙂

2015.2

Daytrip to Beaverton, OR – Good Open-Box Dishwasher Hunting

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Embarked a trip to Oregon to hunt for a “hard to find” Bosch Dishwasher at Washington

– There was no ideal dishwasher within our budget in Washington – only found out Sears outlet at Portland and Best Buy at Beaverton has it…

– Wondered for 1 hour during midnight to attempt or not and decided to check it out by going there: risk was returnning without any gains after hours of driving back and forth.

– Extra cost: $50-$60 Fuel+car mileage dep. plus some time and effort to drive for round trip for unknown results. (but my time is cheap). Also this means I have to haul-away the old one by myself since it is outside of “delivery & pickup”range. Also, I cannot get installation service or need to hire someone to get installed. (Thank you youtube!!…)

– Savings: $250 from buying an open box- though it has little dent, about $100 for “forced” DIY Installation – because of the reaon stated above, also around some savings for sales tax (Thank you state of Oregon!)

Extra gain is seeing/bypassing Nike’s HQ.. 🙂 hearing quite dishwasher running after 7 hours of round trip driving and 1 hour of uninstall & install DIY – priceless..

 

2014.9

 

 

Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview Review after a week

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In quick summary Job well done – Now we are talking about completeness of Phone OS – still question remains on application coverages.

Windows Phone 8.1 had great user friendly features Action Center, Cortana, Calendar got improved dramatically as well as Camera applications.

The only downside I noticed with this upgrade are the breakout of game app. Now all the games which was only accessible via Game app in past are also showing up in app list- which drives me crazy becuase of my kids installing tons of games.

이제 드디어 원도우폰이 8.1업그레이드를 통해 다른 폰들과 동등한 수준의 기본 OS기능들을 정착한듯싶다. 이제 앱만 유치해주심…되는데… ^^

2014.4

 

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

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Finally, bought Galaxy Note 3. Amazing devices, and 30 min of work to set up for my wife made my lovely ATIV S look so tiny and old-fashioned..

Beautifully designed sold square look and fast processer with tons of software loaded into. Feels like some of the softwares are still useless but I do see Samsung’s effort to differentiate the device with lots of nice softwares/applications. (i.e Galaxy to Galaxy migration app worked beautifully smooth..)

Anyhow, the take for me was – now I got a “small android ablet” called Samsung Galaxy 1 in my hand… 🙂

2013.12

Surface

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Welcome home!!!!

Finally long waited Surface landed on my hands.

1일 사용 후기평

– Superior Keyboard experience: 키보드가 역시 훌륭하다

– Continuous Windows 8 Experience: Windows 8을 쓰다보니까 별로 낯설지가 않다. 오히려 Windows 8은 touch가 있어야 제맛임을 알려주는 듯..

– Personalization & Continuity: 내가 PC노트북에서 하던 정보 환경이 그상태대로 그대로 연결 된다.. 이거는 심지어 무섭기도 했음…

허나 제일 좋아하는 건 애들…-.-;

 

 

2012.12