I don’t have any coherent thoughts to share with you today, so I thought I would go with two completely disjointed things that I enjoyed in the last week.

The first is one of my favorite paragraphs I have read in a while (mainly because there are so many links). From a TechCrunch article about how the startup Tagged underwent a major pivot:

First, some context. We’re not at all unique. Many successful startups go through some form of pivot, changing their direction when their first idea was not successful. PayPal was beaming money between Palm Pilots. YouTube was a video dating site. Twitter was group SMS, which came out of a struggling Odeo. Pandora started as a B2B music recommendation service. Groupon started as The Point, serving collective political action. The list goes on.

And a silly math video. Check it out if you like word problems that make no sense, videos designed to look older than they are, or even just dry humor.