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- Lessons from Metafilter
- Field Notes: Big Ideas, Obesity, Metafilter, Wind, P2P, Startups, Nukes, etc.
- Google Chrome Index Fund
- On the Macabre Merits of Swiss vs Canadian Avalanches
- Field Notes: Snow, Banks, Books, Sun, Power, etc.
- Harvard MBAs Go Back to Wall Street
- Book Recommendations
- The "Tilt" Thing and the Case for Journalist Entrepreneurs
- The Hardest Exam Ever: Has There Ever Been a Period That Was Not an Information Age?
- The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again
- The Kinematics of Misdirection
- Field Notes: CRE, Javascript, Oil, Alaska, etc.
- 2011: The Year of the Startup Default
- Sarah Kay's Poetry at TED
- There Must Have Been a Moment at the Beginning
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:22 PM PDT Great re-mixed talk by one of Metafilter's creators about the lessons of his wildly-popular service. Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) from Matt Haughey on Vimeo.... |
| Field Notes: Big Ideas, Obesity, Metafilter, Wind, P2P, Startups, Nukes, etc. Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:07 PM PDT Americans Are Now Fat Enough to Need Bigger Buses (Source) Inside the Bloomberg machine (Source) Recession Caused Sharp Decline in Start-Ups (Source) Lessons from MetaFilter (Source) Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach (Source)... |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:49 AM PDT Graphic of Google Chrome browser download size in MB over the last two years and ten major releases. Too bad it's not an index fund, because it's sharply up and to the right. [via CNET]... |
| On the Macabre Merits of Swiss vs Canadian Avalanches Posted: 22 Mar 2011 07:44 PM PDT A macabre but interesting new paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal showing that Swiss avalanches are less deadly than Canadian ones, all else being equal. Comparison of avalanche survival patterns in Canada and Switzerland Pascal Haegeli, Markus Falk, Hermann... |
| Field Notes: Snow, Banks, Books, Sun, Power, etc. Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:50 PM PDT More Snow Hits California's Sierra, Setting Records - OnTheSnow (Source) Epistemic Complexity and the Journeyman-Expert Transition (Source) Mega-Banks and the Next Financial Crisis (Source) The Future of Nuclear Energy Around the World (Source) The Scale of Nature: Modeling the... |
| Harvard MBAs Go Back to Wall Street Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:23 PM PDT Harvard's MBA class of 2010 headed back to Wall Street in higher proportions. While we're not yet back to peak levels in terms of the percentage of the HBS graduating class going off to create financial instruments of mass destruction,... |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2011 11:46 AM PDT I've been on a Kindle book binge lately, so here are a few I've read and can recommend: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Science of Remembering Everything Super and funny stuff on how a journalist became a star in the competitive... |
| The "Tilt" Thing and the Case for Journalist Entrepreneurs Posted: 19 Mar 2011 01:11 PM PDT People are all stirred up by my suggestion that the Valley is on "tilt". Lest anyone think otherwise, I'm not convinced it's entirely a bad thing. The Valley takes its biggest risks and does some of its wildest work when... |
| The Hardest Exam Ever: Has There Ever Been a Period That Was Not an Information Age? Posted: 19 Mar 2011 12:52 PM PDT From Harper's, the All Souls Exam. Some call this the hardest exam ever, with fascinating questions. Some particularly good ones bolded, but first the preamble: From general subject questions included in the All Souls College examinations between 2005 and 2010. Often described... |
| The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:26 PM PDT It's apparently that time again -- the Valley has gone on tilt. Consider the following top ten signs. 10. Conferences are selling out 9. Venture capitalists are launching blogs 8. Everyone you know has a startup 7. Harvard MBAs are... |
| The Kinematics of Misdirection Posted: 18 Mar 2011 11:47 AM PDT As a long-time (terrible) amateur magician, I'm endlessly fascinated by magical techniques, especially misdirection. A new PLoS One study of the kinematics of misdirection caught my eye, so to speak: The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception Background Most of... |
| Field Notes: CRE, Javascript, Oil, Alaska, etc. Posted: 18 Mar 2011 11:40 AM PDT Cushman & Wakefield's latest global CRE report (Source) jStat : a JavaScript statistical library (Source) Crude's watchdog ready to bark (Source) Hollywood's Leading Geek (Source) Janet Malcolm on Sarah Palin's Alaska. Lovely writing. (Source) Roger McNamee on how Silver... |
| 2011: The Year of the Startup Default Posted: 18 Mar 2011 11:36 AM PDT Worthwhile musing about the effect of so much convertible debt in startup land: Both startups and angels have recently favored convertible debt, particularly in the United States. Startups like debt deals because they are quick and cheap to close by... |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:52 AM PDT Not sure how well this will translate outside the live evening audience at TED, but one of the biggest surprises to me at this year's event was how much I enjoyed Sarah Kay's spoken word poetry. Apropos of nothing, I... |
| There Must Have Been a Moment at the Beginning Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:24 AM PDT Rosencrantz: [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are about to be hanged] That's it then, is it? We've done nothing wrong. We didn't harm anybody, did we? Guildenstern: I can't remember. Rosencrantz: All right, then. I don't care. I've had enough. To... |
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