From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 8, 2011 at 1:38 am
Scott Adams has a "winning" post on Charlie Sheen:
Imagine if you stopped filtering everything you said and did. You'd have to be in Charlie Sheen's unique position to get ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 2, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Anne Lamott:
A person's faults are largely what make him or her likable. I like for narrators [of novels] to be like the people I choose for friends, which is to say that they ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm
The 5th largest earthquake in history (8.8) struck Chile one year ago, today. La Tercera is doing a bunch of one-year anniversery coverage, including a blow-by-blow that begins ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 25, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Fred Wilson blogged about marketing:
I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal customer that ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 23, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Proctor & Gamble wasn't selling enough diapers in Brazil. So they took a closer look at the cultural dynamics of the market:
In America, when parents buy nappies they often ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 22, 2011 at 2:33 pm
When it comes to delegating or outsourcing small tasks, the question always is, "Would it be faster if I just did it myself?"
I was struck by this thought when I saw the following ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 20, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Since "kicking the can down the road" is a cliche, Andrew Biggs proposes a replacement phrase for use when discussing America's federal budget: kicking the kid down the road.
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 18, 2011 at 1:10 am
Not all entrepreneurship is the same. Steve Blank clearly describes four different types:
1. Small Business Entrepreneurship Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 14, 2011 at 4:21 am
There are so many awesome Charlie Rose segments. A couple days ago Tom Friedman was on the show in Cairo. I watched the first 20 minutes. I had two reactions.
1) Friedman's enthusiasm ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 13, 2011 at 1:44 am
Many opposites are not nearly as different as they first appear. For example, as Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel observed, the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference; ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 9, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Tyler C., a loyal reader of many years, asks in an email:
What is the best book on start-ups? Not a how-to book, but a fun book for the general reader.
Another way of ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 7, 2011 at 2:02 am
At a recent dinner with American friends who I met in Chile but who are now back in the States, we went around the table and each of us said what we miss and don't miss about ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
February 3, 2011 at 4:52 am
In his blog post How CEOs Can Improve Speeches, Nick Morgan analyzes the opening pargraphs of Obama's state of the union address:
You can tell when rhetoric is empty — and ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 31, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Yesterday's Modern Love column was one of the best. A great example of how a short story can convey some of the key dynamics of dating / romance better than lengthy exposition. ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 29, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Will Wilkinson on Obama's state of the union address and the follies of telling Americans that this is our "Sputnik moment":
I'm lucky to have been in the last cohort of American ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 28, 2011 at 8:19 pm
By the time I arrived, out of breath, at the Delta check-in desk at Detroit airport a couple days ago, I felt like I had overcome so many obstacles to get there that success was ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 25, 2011 at 3:35 am
Skeptoid by Brian Dunning is my favorite podcast. I download episodes onto my iPod and listen to them while driving (earbud in one ear).
I recently enjoyed his take on Myers-Briggs ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 21, 2011 at 4:45 pm
At Cal Newport's recommendation, I've watched three episodes of Iconoclasts, a television series that runs on the Sundance Channel. Each episode is 45 minutes and juxtaposes ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 17, 2011 at 2:31 am
Quick link dump:
-- Marc Benioff's riffs (20 minute video interview) on the future of work seem spot-on. Marc sees enterprise software looking more and more like Facebook -- the ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 14, 2011 at 4:10 am
Ramit is killing it over at his blog. In his recent post How to ace the world's toughest interviews, he says top performers maniacally prepare and hustle in order to land jobs ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 12, 2011 at 3:35 am
I recently read long-ish profiles of James Franco and Matt Taibbi. After reading each one, I thought, "They are both leading very full lives." In a good way.
From The James Franco ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 7, 2011 at 6:33 pm
China is building 100 new airports by 2020. By the time that’s all done, 1.5 billion Chinese will live within 90 minutes of an airport.
That's from this review of the forthcoming ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 6, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Anil Dash notes the double edged sword of Twitter's transience:
Perhaps the most important psychological innovation of Twitter is that it assumes you won't see every message ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 5, 2011 at 4:49 am
Josh Kaufman's book The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business was just published. It is an exhaustive overview of the concepts and vocabulary that make the business world go ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
January 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm
The always-interesting Virginia Postrel writes about metrosexual and retrosexual men in America. Normally the two are contrasted as opposites; Virginia groups them together as ... (
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