City Cafe in Kitchener, ON doesn’t have a cash register. another example of simply trusting people to pay and focus on what actually creates value.

eggbeater: Chef Owners Who Work The Line. random write-up about working at the French Laundry and the restaurant business.

Green Enterprise Toronto. business association to think local and green.


Justin.tv - DHH Talk - Startup School 2008. great talk about creating a business that targets the Fortune 5 million.

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays - New York Times “To make it into the top 25 of hedge fund pay, a manager needed to earn at least $360 million last year, more than 18 times the amount in 2002. The median American family, by contrast, earned $60,500 last year.” On top of that, “Combined, the top 50 hedge fund managers last year earned $29 billion.”

Up and Then Down: The New Yorker. long essay about the elevator business and what happens when you get stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. also of note: “In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works.”

American Apparel Bares All - WSJ.com. working there must be absolutely ridiculous.

Blank. American Apparel-esque clothing company producing cotton clothes in quebec.

Op-Chart: Making Money Hand Over Fist - The New York Times. a guide to the hand signals of trading on the NY Mercantile.

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) “And then I lost my cool, tearing into Comcast on Twitter. […] Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help”. these are the perks of writing for techcrunch.

Business guru Lenny Dykstra (kottke.org). There’s a great segment in Moneyball about how Dykstra’s ignorance of his own failures made him such a great ballplayer. Check out the except here.

Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US. that’s insane. via josh.

Gordon Ramsay eats his own words - Telegraph. it’s insane how the restaurant business works. being a chef strike me as a terrible job.

Capitalism without bankruptcy, it is said, is like Christianity without hell.
- The Economist

Springwise: Paparazzi for the rest of us. i think ram could excel at this job.

Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon - Engadget. fucking scathing.

Secrets of Pixar’s inner circle - Los Angeles Times “‘Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!’ director Jimmy Hayward had to leave Pixar to get his shot behind the camera”.

Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod. financial times is reporting that apple is shopping the idea to record labels.

Kluster: Crowdsourcing platform. jody tried to pitch me this business idea a while back.

Chris Anderson and Michael Arrington: Back-to-Back on Charlie Rose. the end piece of the anderson interview on the competitive advantage of the usa is an interesting one.