OAT Shoes
OAT Shoes are biodegradable sneakers that carry flowers in the tongue of the shoe. Once you wear them, or rather once you’re done wearing them, you can bury them in the ground and have a bouquet of wildflowers growing where your sneakers are buried. : Continue reading :
Posted: November 4th, 2011
at 9:07pm by mnp
Categories: green,gear,design,innovation,11th dan
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The Myth of Web 3.0
It seems like talk of web 3.0 has been going on for millennia…
Posted: November 4th, 2011
at 12:08pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,computers,web,not ninja-worthy,design,development,internets,innovation,kilobytes
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There is Not Enough Africa in Computers
Brian Eno talks about music and technology from 1995.
Posted: September 28th, 2011
at 1:22pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,computers,music,life,art,weaponry,fo' real?,science,"ninja",internets,language,innovation
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A Balance Sheet Recession
Learning from Japan, "This is not a common cold, this is pneumonia." :

At a cost of $235,263 per job, paying people high wages to help the domestic economy mend artificially created scarcities is not a cure for global economic stagnation. Is it possible to optimize rationality? We need to hope so.
Slate offers eight drastic policy measures necessary to prevent global economic collapse…is it really getting to this?
On a side note, who doesn’t like chocolate….if utilized by Africa it could have a major impact on the standard of living…
Posted: September 27th, 2011
at 8:00pm by mnp
Categories: business,politricks,real life news,innovation
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FailCon 2011 Warm Up
If you wondered how people win, they failed to get there. FailCon is bringing together 20 speakers and a series of workshops to study the failure process. Happening October 24th, 9:00a - 6:00p at Hotel Kabuki, SF, it is bringing to light the often tabooed use of the term failure.
As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge. At FailCon, we help you do just that. Join founders and partners from MySpace, Uber, Cuil, Airbnb, Khosla Ventures, MindJolt, KISSmetrics, PBworks, Second Life, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and more as share advice on how to reach success.
Past ninja speaker from 2010 and teacher legend, Steve Blank, offers some insight about start-up customer development and the role of the pivot (from 30 years of experience mind you):

So why attend a conference about failing as opposed to winning? Because it is refreshing to see the leaders of the tech world to talk about their bumpy path as opposed to a course that just happened exactly as it was supposed to (does that happen at all?).
MNP will definitely be checking out The Failure of Business Models and Negotiation - How To Not Fail At Getting Your Way. As you may or may not know, we embrace failure- if the resident ninja is seen with a broken computer in tote, you will know that they are failing to success and say what’s up! We hope to be able to learn from FailCon about………monetization- I know, outlandish right? Something that has eluded the ninjas in this part of the blogosphere…
Ed. note: Over the past five years, the look and feel of myninjaplease.com has been updated numerous times and for those that have stuck with us through our early days of coming off like a science project (no, really) and to where were at today, know that we have a long way to go! What better way then to continue on then to learn from the pitfalls en route to building something better the next time.
And when you’re ready to buy tickets to FailCon 2011, use the code, "my ninja" and receive 15% off!
Posted: September 11th, 2011
at 6:09pm by mnp
Categories: web,business,development,events,entrepreneurship,fail,innovation
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Scaling the US Economy
Economists are considering past elections as the recent debt problem of the United States seemed to have gotten people thinking about what would really happen if a default occurred. For further insight about the challenges, read a physicist’s opinion on scaling the economy through 2100.
Posted: August 2nd, 2011
at 8:13am by mnp
Categories: green,business,science,development,education,trade,entrepreneurship,jobs,innovation,real estate
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Oklahoma Libraries Lending Out Netbooks
Posted: June 28th, 2011
at 6:16pm by mnp
Categories: computers,et cetera,internets,innovation
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My Ninja, Please! 6.27.11 : Frederick Kaufman : Wallmart to the Farm
After the the e-coli scare, people decided to self-regulate food metrics, what follows is an interesting journey of the tomato…what is sustainable food?

Posted: June 27th, 2011
at 3:46pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,green,business,mnp is for the children,weaponry,grub,science,diy,development,health,innovation
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