{"id":7494,"date":"2016-04-18T18:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2016-04-20T00:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:21:31","slug":"cal-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/cal-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I just read on a fortune cookie in my daydream:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; If you&#8217;re free, help free someone else.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; if you&#8217;ve power, empower someone else.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now my extrapolation:<\/div>\n<div>If you go to Stanford and your school doesn&#8217;t suck, help someone who goes to Cal because the t-shirt is true: &#8220;<b><i>Cal<\/i><\/b> SUCKS&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/722057947174440961?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4\/18\/16, 6:43 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SiliconValley&amp;src=hash\">#SiliconValley<\/a>\u00a0is not normal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the book &#8220;WHY NATIONS FAIL&#8221;. It explains why your American city is failing at &#8216;innovation&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Have you heard of Berkeley Startup week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/722091337525276672?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4\/18\/16, 8:56 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">When Cal students wanted to do a sequel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23StanfordEWeek&amp;src=hash\">#StanfordEWeek<\/a>, Cal sent a threatening message to undergrads Re\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CalEWeek&amp;src=hash\">#CalEWeek<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9WWNEXxmyU\">twitter.com\/techcrunch\/sta\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cal-sucks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cal-sucks.png\" alt=\"cal-sucks\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cal-sucks.png 640w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cal-sucks-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/722090968116125697?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4\/18\/16, 8:54 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Not to be a legendary reader, but YC said it stopped doing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23StartupSchool&amp;src=hash\">#StartupSchool<\/a>\u00a0at Cal bc they wanted to charge.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183yC&amp;src=hash\">#cs183yC<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechCrunch\">@TechCrunch<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cookie\">@Cookie<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\nCal does have a cool class called &#8220;Lean Launchpad&#8221;. At Stanford it&#8217;s #ENGR145.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/658353847597838336\/gudlMh3p_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>steve blank (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgblank?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@sgblank<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgblank\/status\/720426998598795265?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/13\/16, 6:42 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Entrepreneurship and aging <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aH5iva5yJo\">medium.com\/@elibildner\/fr\u2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanford\">@Stanford<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Set the entrepreneurship bell curve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"DE0CF137-FF97-4D90-A260-0A395F2A84B6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image136.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Cross the innovation chasm<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang I just read on a fortune cookie in my daydream: &#8211; If you&#8217;re free, help free someone else. &#8211; if you&#8217;ve power, empower someone else. 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