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# This Week - Aug 23, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-08-23/
- Published: 2013-08-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:55.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, biz journals, celery, gear patrol, gq, jeanne marie laskas, joe biden, krystal peak, nick caruso, peter shih, startups, tech, technology, the wilderness collective, this week, wilderness collective, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> As much as we would like to believe that we can have a completely independent persona online that is separate from our business one, it just isn’t the case, and that goes double for people who found and operate their own company.  
>  
> — [Startup founder bites San Francisco, San Franciscans bite back – A lesson in social media (BizJournals)](http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/08/Peter-Shih-learns-a-lesson.html?page=all&ref=drewshannon.net)

> We were the Boy Scouts of the 1%: fortunate beyond belief and making the most of every moment, plunged at once into bare nature and high living to explore the essence of life, perhaps.  
>  
> — [Setting Sail: A Journey to the Channel Islands (Gear Patrol)](http://gearpatrol.com/2013/08/14/setting-sail-a-journey-to-the-channel-islands/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> You can't be a compassionate man, a guy without a mean bone in his body, and also a brilliant man. The public doesn't have room for that—at least not in Joe Biden.  
>  
> — [Have You Heard the One About President Joe Biden? (GQ)](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201308/joe-biden-presidential-campaign-2016-2013?ref=drewshannon.net)