From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
September 1, 2010 at 12:41 am
I recently spent 1.5 weeks in Indonesia. I traveled all over the country (Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Batam, though not Bali) and met some 2,500 students, businesspeople, ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 28, 2010 at 10:54 am
My sixth grade technology teacher changed my life.
He taught an early-morning elective class on computer repair in which we learned how to fix Macintosh computers. The curriculum ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 25, 2010 at 9:37 am
Earlier this week in Indonesia, before I went up to give a speech, I was introduced to the audience exactly three times. Three different Important People of the sponsoring organization ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 23, 2010 at 6:57 am
More wisdom from Sal Kahn (of the Kahn Academy): ...it makes more sense to have students watch lectures at
home and do homework at school as opposed to vice versa.
So true! ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 21, 2010 at 7:56 am
The striking part in an otherwise ho-hum profile of David Brooks in New York magazine:Whereas Bobos drew accolades, the response to his 2004
follow-up, On Paradise Drive, and ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 19, 2010 at 6:19 am
Matthew Yglesias discusses the follies of occupational licensing, citing the case of whether barbers ought to have licenses to set up shop:If you just assume optimal implementation ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 17, 2010 at 3:35 am
"My code of life and conduct is simply this: work hard, play to the
allowable limit, disregard equally the good and bad opinion of others,
never do a friend a dirty trick, ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 14, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. The Chilean government recently announced a bold initiative that stands apart from the usual innovation and ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 10, 2010 at 1:52 am
In a revealing interview with Details magazine, he displays wisdom and perspective about his former boxing life and about what's really important. Excerpt:How long were you ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 7, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Professor Clayton Christensen, in a recent commencement speech, lays out his life strategy. Excerpt:
For me, having a clear purpose in my life has been essential. But it ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 6, 2010 at 3:31 am
The Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel is an outstanding history of strategy as a discipline, the consulting industry in general, and the broader intellectualization of business ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 4, 2010 at 1:55 am
(Me on the iconic mosaic promenade next to Copacabana beach on the one rainy day)I recently spent 10 terrific days in Rio de Janiero and Paraty, Brazil.
It was more vacation ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Malcolm Gladwell's article this past May examined the "I-know-they-know-I-know-they-know" regress as it relates to spying and national intelligence. If country X knows that country ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 28, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Elsewhere in the world of gender:
Marty Nemko on how men don't have it easy in society.
The always-funny Kelly Oxford tweets: New numbers: 100%
of girls with good posture ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 27, 2010 at 10:00 am
Cal Newport's latest book is called How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out).
This is a book with loads ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 25, 2010 at 8:36 pm
"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to
run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas
stations. You have to pay attention to money, ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 22, 2010 at 11:25 pm
My good friend Stan James writes about how social networks amplify the feel-bad-in-comparison effect when you see people raving about how glorious their lives are:In my trips back ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 20, 2010 at 10:43 pm
My friend Chris Sacca, micro-VC and former Googler, in a recent interview on TechCrunch TV says he prefers to hire people in Silicon Valley who've traveled / lived outside the ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 19, 2010 at 5:37 pm
French 19th-century sociologist Auguste Comte started one in his time. Here's how it worked:He observed that conventional faiths usually cemented their authority
by providing ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 18, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Tim O'Reilly:
Runs a $100 million dollar book publishing and conference business
Runs a venture capital fund that invests in tech entrepreneurs
Owns a pair of white Icelandic ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 15, 2010 at 9:55 pm
There needs to be a MacArthur Foundation that focuses on emerging talents. It should give no-strings-attached grants to emerging talents in the same way MacArthur does for ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 14, 2010 at 1:46 am
Last year the always worthwhile Adam Gopnik wrote a great piece about cookbooks. Delightful reading for anyone unusually interested in cooking. For the rest of us, there was one ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 13, 2010 at 1:38 am
MoveOn.org, one of the most influential liberal organizations in American politics, tops its homepage today with this key issue: "Rescue government from corporations and lobbyists."
Meanwhile, ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 10, 2010 at 10:13 pm
In a video interview with Fortune magazine (embed below), Marc Andreessen says that in the context of early stage entrepreneurship, smart = curiosity + drive. He says an entrepreneur ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 8, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Kaj Sotala, on LessWrong, says that in oral conversation he frequently has trouble formulating sentences and thoughts fast enough to keep up. His solution: cached thoughts.
Both ... (
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