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Y-Combinator Sam Altman's Future Predictions
From this week's Econtalk podcast Sam Altman, president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, mentions three interesting startup investment trends: wearables (it's inevitable that we'll all have computing devices…
[podcast] The Second Machine Age
My favorite podcast, Econtalk, is always worth a listen. Here are my takeaways from this week’s interview with Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT and co-author of The Second Machine…
CEO as Editor (Jack Dorsey)
I often listen to Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast , but there's a particularly good one this month with Jack Dorsey. Best known as the co-founder of Twitter,…
"If you loved it, you'd be doing it"
Great one-hour video/podcast by Ken Robinso n, public education expert. I liked this part (about 43 minutes in) when he relates a conversation he once had with a…
Don't share your dreams
In this new TED Talk , Derek Sivers (the guy who made that viral video on how to start a movement ) gives reasons to walk the walk,…
Meeting Bruce Bassett at Starbucks
Local elections should be about local issues , so why waste your vote on somebody you've never met, or who isn't already a friend of somebody you know…
Transcripts of Voters Forum
Thank you to everyone who responded with their comments letting me know about last week's Voter Forum . I can listen to the the whole podcast on the…
Reading list for September
So much to write, so little time. Several good friends have asked me about what interesting books I've read lately. I say "check out my blog", but now…
How societies grow and innovate
My new job puts me back in marketing, doing a new phone, but one special thing about the team is that I'm part of Microsoft Research . My…
[Podcast] Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley doesn't say much new about genes and the environment in his interview with Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan , but I enjoyed the conversation anyway.…