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Mar 19, 2015

10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned

Time to read: 50 minutes We touched down in Las Vegas only three hours before, but we were already back in the plane and flying home to San Jose on a brisk winter day in December, 2012. Not having to go through security at an airport saves a lot of…

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Mar 4, 2015

Jeff Immelt’s Overhaul of GE Impeded by Falling Oil Prices — WSJ

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Mar 1, 2015

3 Characteristics of a Mobile Calendar

When is my appointment? Am I free next weekend? What date is the bill due? These are simple questions we might ask ourselves any given day. We have relied on the calendar as a tool to organize our lives and keep our focus on what’s to come.

3 Characteristics of a Mobile Calendar

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Mar 14, 2015

Interview w/ Patrick Spain, Chairman of Hoovers, Inc.

Hoovers aggregates and compiles financial and contact information for a majority of businesses. It was one of the first successful online subscription services. Interview conducted by Nathan C. Kaiser on Saturday, May 19, 2001 in Austin…

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Mar 11, 2015

This guy’s light bulb performed a DoS attack on his entire smart house

The challenge of being a futurist pioneer is being Patient Zero for the future’s headaches. In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach)…

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Mar 3, 2015

Five Bits of Management Wisdom from Pixar

I’ve been reading Creativity, Inc., a history of Pixar and autobiography of Ed Catmull, the founder and CEO. Given how captivating Pixar’s seminal movies are, I wasn’t surprised to find the book is engrossing and well written.

Five Bits of Management Wisdom from Pixar

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Mar 1, 2015

It’s official (sort of): India to overtake China as fastest-growing major economy

It’s official, sort of. After 20 years of breakneck growth, China is going to pass the title of the world’s fastest growing big economy to India this year.

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Mar 18, 2015

When we were small: Under Armour

In a row house in Georgetown, Kevin Plank started a company with about $15,000, some locally purchased fabric, and an ambitious plan to shake up the athletic apparel industry. It took the former University of Maryland football player five years to turn it into a $5…

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Mar 17, 2015

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Mar 5, 2015

GOP consultant: Republicans will soon fall behind independents in California

Population trends have been working against the Republican Party for so long in California that a workshop on “changing demographics” came with an air of exasperation at the state party’s biannual…

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Mar 5, 2015

Visualizing Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

Jessica Hagy is a professional writer and illustrator well-known for her minimalist ink-on-index-card illustrations, which are found at her site Indexed. Hagy’s typical card is a venn diagram or x-y plot of a deceptively simple idea with a punchline. Like this:

Visualizing Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

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