February 2012
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I have a bad feeling about this - raganwald's... →
They tell us that only a “managed economy” for intellectual “property” will preserve jobs, and that more “freedom” will actually lead to slavery, that roving bands of pirates are living it up like drug barons on movie downloads. They explain how they need the senate to grant them special, temporary powers to download the contents of your phone or laptop when you cross the border, they explain...
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January 2012
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“Thrun was eloquent on the subject of how he realized that he had been running...”
– Udacity — Marginal Revolution
The last sentence is important. You don’t have to make super-easy courses to get people passed. Give them enough time and feedback and they will learn your material over time.
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111 books in 2011: #105/111: change.edu →
111in2011:
How does the future market of higher education looks like? Andrew Rosen, the CEO of Kaplan, presents his ideas and takes a look in the past of higher education in the USA. At the beginning there were colleges, like the Harvard College. Interestingly, there isn’t much known about John Harvard. The most important thing was that he donated his library and half of his money after...
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“As with technology, you have to be able to do more with less. Alternative energy...”
– Peter Thiel at Singularity Summit
(via Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust | Hacker News)
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self-ownership: It always frustrates me when Obama... →
self-ownership:
It always frustrates me when Obama is on TV so passionately talking about how much he cares about small businesses. He seems so genuine about creating an economic environment to help people start their own business and people actually believe it.
More regulations and red tape is not the way to help someone create a business. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.
Leave people alone. Nobody...
December 2011
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“This is the first time I think that I or RyanAir have ever been invited to a...”
– The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : RyanAir CEO Slams EU at EU Innovation Summit (Video inside)
Just awesome!
November 2011
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“When you grow up, everybody tells you that you can do anything you put your mind...”
– ESEA News - Content - Blog: What I Miss About Counter-Strike
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Replacing the Bachelor's Degree (Audio, 11min) →
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The world would be a much nicer place if everyone...
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My major is "real," too, OK? →
Every time I talk to an engineer or a pre-med or something, they have the nerve to ask me, “So what are you going to do with that major?” Even English majors, who I thought would be sympathetic, have a wide variety of (mostly evil, corporate) career paths available to them. They, too, express contemptuous curiosity in regards to my Program II Global Marginalized Cultural Art Studies degree....
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College has been oversold →
Over the past 25 years the total number of students in college has increased by about 50 percent. But the number of students graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (the so-called STEM fields) has remained more or less constant. Moreover, many of today’s STEM graduates are foreign born and are taking their knowledge and skills back to their native countries.
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October 2011
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January 2011
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Jeffrey Miron » Blog Archive » Money Not... →
Evergreen Solar Inc. will eliminate 800 jobs in Massachusetts and shut its new factory at the former military base in Devens, just two years after it opened the massive facility to great fanfare and with about $58 million in taxpayer subsidies. The company announced yesterday that it will close the plant by the end of March, calling itself a victim of weak demand and competition from cheaper...
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Small business employment index indicates 57,000... →
The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.3 percent last month, equating to an annual growth rate of about 3.4 percent. This translates to approximately 57,000 new jobs created nationwide.
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Young College Grads Struggle to Find Work -... →
A Degree Alone “Doesn’t Cut It”
For the classes of 2010 and 2011, this means taking a practical approach to the job market. Instead of focusing on their grade-point average and waiting for offers to roll in, they have treat the job hunt as a major component of their education.
“The degree alone doesn’t cut it,” says Matthew Berndt, director of...
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Obama administration moves forward with unique... →
Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to a national ID card, or a government controlled system, but that it would enhance security and reduce the need for people to memorize dozens of passwords online. Sorry, Locke, sounds like a national ID system to us.
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100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a... →
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, and one of the first mega-billionaires in the US. Elementary school dropout.
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Charles Culpeper, owner and CEO of Coca Cola. Dropped out of high school.
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David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Dropped out of school at 15, then homeschooled. Did not attend college.
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Jake Nickell, co-founder and CEO of Threadless.com. Did...
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A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: You Should... →
For many years, I said DO NOT SELF-PUBLISH. I had many good reasons to support this belief. 1. Self-publishing was expensive 2. The final product was over priced and inferior 3. Self-pubbed were impossible to distribute 4. Most self-pubbed books weren’t returnable 5. Chances were, the reason you had to self pub was because your writing wasn’t good enough 6. Most POD houses were...
December 2010
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Simple/Silly Products That Made Millions →
genybuzz:
Loved reading this in NewsWeek. It’s incredible how a simple accident of an invention can become, when marketed right, a cultural phenomenon. My personal favorites are the Slinky and the Topsy Tail. What are yours?
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Neuro-Menus and Restaurant Psychology |... →
Restaurants are great test labs for testing neuromarketing techniques. It’s easy to change offerings, menus, and pricing, and one gets immediate feedback on what’s working and what’s not.
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Thoughts on business, engineering and higher... →
The New York Times had an interesting article this morning about the P.S.M., which, according to sciencemasters.com, is “an innovative, new graduate degree designed to allow students to pursue advanced training in science or mathematics, while simultaneously developing workplace skills highly valued by employers.”
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How Much Did It Cost AOL To Send Us Those CDs In... →
Over $300 million :-) At one point, 50% of the CD’s produced worldwide had an AOL logo on it. We were logging in new subscribers at the rate of one every six seconds
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Once In A Lifetime
clientsfromhell:
Me: I estimate this small website to be about 30 hours of work.
Client: 30 hours? Dont be modest, I know lots of people making websites and it’s not easy. Make it 40 hours and I will agree.
Me: Okay!
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Making the case against college | Washington... →
Back in October, I was baffled to see Jacob Weisberg at Slate lose his cool over an effort by Internet entrepreneur — and libertarian — Peter Thiel to make kids consider not going to (or at least not finishing) college.
Weisberg’s description of the program: “The Thiel Fellowship will pay would-be entrepreneurs under 20 $100,000 in cash to drop out of school.”
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Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic →
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time.
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Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical'... →
Cuba banned Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” favourable picture of Cuba’s healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a “popular backlash”, according to US diplomats in Havana.
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How to prototype like a pro | Amir Khella →
An uncommon guide to designing user interfaces and interactive application prototypes using Apple Keynote
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Hacker News | If you could give a book to your... →
If you could travel back in time and give a book to your younger self, what book (and what age) would you choose?
I think I would give my 15 year old self Atlas Shrugged because it helps losing this anti-business attitude and I wanted to start something directly after reading it.
What would you give your younger self?
November 2010
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Lucas critique →
The Lucas critique, named for Robert Lucas¿ work on macroeconomic policymaking, argues that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data.
There is a very nice example. In 1992 the German government tried to increase their tax revenue by increasing...
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Why I Will Not Analyze The New WikiLeaks Data «... →
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“You can do something good for yourself, or you can do something good for other...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » A Brief Guide to World Domination
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The anti-bubble of 2001-2004 - Fortune Finance →
The conventional wisdom was no Internet company would ever make money and all the ideas of the dotcom boom were stupid. Turns out that 2001-2004 was one of the best times to invest in Internet companies.
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Central to the [card]game are “bad ideas” that players try to get rid of.
One bad idea is name your price auctions:
Today the leading name your price auction...
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“California voters have just rejected Proposition 19, the ballot initiative that...”
– Why did California vote down legal pot? - CNN.com
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October 2010
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