June 2010
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May 2010
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Today’s theme will be Japanese artists. Honji is ridiculously fresh.
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The New Yorker haz a Tumblr →
mikehudack:
aatombomb:
First Newsweek, now this. What’s up, Atlantic? You better get on the ball.
I’d like to thank The New Yorker for reblogging me (via a Newsweek reblog!). You guys are awesome!
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“Energy In Common: It’s like Kiva, but Greener”: http://bit.ly/bCBASe Wanna see more like this. Maybe the industry needs to mature more.
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Weight classes in prisons to slow down the rates of prisoner-on-prisoner rape? http://bit.ly/cHYuOZ Sounds pretty good to me.
Read these, in this order. Love this type of talk: http://bit.ly/8X9uDG, http://bit.ly/9yBFlf, http://bit.ly/aWcPFW (via @ezraklein @cdixon) I very clearly remember going to my Goldman Sachs interview, winter of Junior year, and thinking to myself, wow I could not have less interest in investment banking if I tried. But everyone else is doing it, it’s a lot of money, it’s safe, and...
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Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
“How to win Friends and Influence People”
Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
Give honest and sincere appreciation.
Arouse in the other person an eager want.
- Dale Carnegie
All of these guidelines still apply, 70 years later. This is so awesome.
Virgin Greenfund quietly investing in later stage Cleantech Start-ups: http://nyti.ms/dbZNoi I’ve been trying, for almost a year now, to figure out whether or not Venture Capital is in fact still a relevant asset class. My friend Adam suggests that it’s not. Not sure I agree, or that I understand why. Recently published research from the Kaufman Foundation suggests that since the boom...
Investor Acronyms of the day: ZOPA (Zone of Possible Agreement) BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) and NAMBLA (I kid, I kid. Get it? I kid? Sorry.)
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On the Modern Man
I submitted this short opinion piece to the 48hrmag.com project, and it wasn’t selected, as the other writers were all way better than me, and I’m looking forward to reading the magazine when it comes out, as should you. But I want to share my thoughts anyway. More to come, of course.
The Masculine Mystique: Why it’s time to stop watching ESPN, and time to start hustling
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On Spirit for iPhone
On Friday I spent a couple of hours going through some arduous and eventually ineffectual sets of instructions for tethering the iPhone to a laptop. Today I discovered that there is an automatic tool called Spirit, which was just released within the week. I hereby share it with other iPhone users who want to jailbreak.
Find it here.
It installs Cydia, which you will need to use to go through...
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On Technology and Relationships
This is going to be a multiple post train of thought, I know it. But I first wanted to start with unpacking this one thought here a little bit. My friend Alex and I have spent some time pondering the notion of instant messaging, of cellphones, and of social networks, and how they leave us connected to anyone who we have ever interacted with, and make that all-too-easy proverbial “Add as a...