If there’s one line of wisdom threaded through the book, it’s summed up at the end by Michael Dell when asked what the most important quality in an entrepreneur is. “Persistence” was his one word reply. (I prefer the phrase “fucking a terrier” as in “he’s a fucking terrier”).

A simple practical idea that resonates with the threads and memes you’re consuming. That’s interwoven with the trends of your time and solves the problems of your time.

This post is about one such idea.

But it’s worth remembering that we operate within just such a system every day of our lives.

The next night, a Friday on the sofa nursing a cold, I watched this talk by Umair Haque. I had been reading his response to the comments on his Generation M Manifesto and spotted a link purporting to explain what “doing meaningful stuff that matters” means in detail.

So the penny drops and it’s back to the drawing board. All the time I’ve invested figuring out which model entities can go in which entity group and how we can maitnain db consistency and so on is simply a waste.

From a data store perspective, a user’s immediate trustmap looks like:

class Trustmap(db.Model):
    user = db.KeyProperty()
    context = db.StringProperty()
    users = db.ListProperty(db.Key)

Wrong. These are tiny marginal factors that barely affect it.

Over to Tav…

I was only there for a few minutes but I caught a vignette during which Mamading Ceesay perked the crowd up into spontaneous applause.