20, 5, 4, 2

20 awesome words you can't translate
Have you tried these 5 incredible tacos?
4 [seriously?] ways to hold your phone
2 comprehensive posts defining The Entrepreneur

Miserable, Addictive, Fear

Facebook is making us miserable
Love Pinterest?
We've gotten too efficient (check out heat map at the end)

Rembrandt, Ferrari, Sandberg

Rembrandt's business lesson: Light
Ferrari's competitive advantage: Cashmere
Sandberg's secret: Work/Life balance

Questions (hopefully) answered

Women: Can women upend corporate America's male-dominated culture?
Water: Why do American restaurants serve water before the meal?
War-sick: Why would anyone miss war?
Wondering: How can large companies reinvent themselves?

State flags, Metrics, War

State flags: Better way to memorize them
Metrics: How quantitative measures are ruining employee engagement
War: Facebook's Like vs Google's +1
Chef: Hubert Seifert of Spagio's
Yale: Shutting down Anti-Semitism Department reveals new thought process
Change: The Reinvention of Harvard B-School

Bookplates, Kutcher & Babies

Content: Why it's not king
Kutcher: Investor/Entrepreneur
Bookplates: Finally they made a book about labels
Art: Babies prefer Picasso to Monet
Smart Teams: Want smarter teams? Add more women!
IT: CFOs don't trust their CIOs
Canoeing: Check out the Battelle Darby Creek
Ricotta: Make your own

Party, Choice & TV

• My Party: And I'll cry if I want to
• My Choice: The War against Girls
• My Language: Ode to Profanity
• My Philosophy: Hegel students paint St. Louis as Eden
• My TV: And its shrinking margins...

Men, managers & Conan

Old things

• Men: Why women should not pick attractive mates
• Managers: Why middle managers may be the most important
• Conan O'Brien: Dartmouth's Commencement Speech
• Lists: What medieval German inventories tell us about consumerism
• Apologies: Now was that so hard?
• Idols: MRI can't distinguish between love for Apple or Jesus

May 23, 2011

Old Things

• Bulgaria: long forgotten communist monuments
• Civilization: sparked by...religion?
• IPOs: quick thoughts and lessons from LinkedIn
• The Lock: phone = key
• Free market: just got freer
• MIT: where it pays to be eccentric, in the trillions
• Wallis Simpson: villain or victim?
• Shostakovich: the joke heard through running water

May 18, 2011

Old things

• Munis: do you own any of this crap?
• Your accountant: should he/she also be your advisor?
• So-called education: is yours worth it?
• Quotation marks: refresher course on how NOT to use them
• Apps: they can run your business
• Physics: modeling Twitter traffic after radioactive decay
• GMAT: take it now; changes ahead
• Excel: unloved and unused excel functions (my pic: =bahttext)

May 10, 2011

Old things

• The bike lock: break it, break the bike
• The parasite: composed solely of reproductive organs
• The trader: having a new kind of fun
• The disposable coffee cup lid: an evolution
• The food truck: making a huge comeback

Old ideas

• The 5% creativity challenge, inspired by Bill Gates
• Stop networking with me!
• Too young to start a business? She wasn't
• Too much to do? Take on more
• Shit my students write

May 2, 2011

Old things

• Did Cisco kill Flip Camera too soon?
• Some numbers are prettier than others
• The Mighty Sentence
• Paris private dining for two, chez Rachel Khoo
• Mead, the honeywine of yesteryear is here in Cbus

Old ideas

• Sell everything you own and give it to the poor (...ok, how about half?)
• Stop reading e-ship blogs! (except this one, of course)
• Totalitarian Art: Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin & Sadam
• Research roundup: Marriage/Entrepreneurship/Luxury goods
• The City Triumphant--Jane Jacobs is back in full force

April 25, 2011

Old things

• Scott Adams: A real education
• The car: an asset or a service?
• The rating agency downgrade meeting
• Revolutions and the price of bread
• Mentors, coaches and teachers
• Why Nokia's collapse should scare Apple
• Cities are the answer. What was the question?
• One size fits nobody: seeking a steady 4 or 10
• The Higher Ed bubble

Old ideas

• Intuition is more than trusting your gut
• Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
• It's raining men: conference on male studies
• Urban acupuncture
• Don't do what you love (read the comments)
• Have more kids. Pay less attention to them.

April 11, 2011

Novelty

• The Sleeping Beauty Disease
• The Pedestrian: an Introduction
• The Midas Touch (top Tech investors list)
• The Columbus 2020 speaks to entrepreneurship in Columbus--think they can do it?
• Facebook mobile is in for some changes this year

Questioning

• Can congress cut $4 TRILLION of spending from the budget?
• Does the Kindle want to be free?
• Did high finance kill entrepreneurship?
• Epsilon's mess: are you affected?

Wisdom

• A Real Education, by Scott Adams
• Yes, entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor
• The CEO's speech
• How to avoid 360 degree feedback backfires

April 4, 2011

Novelty:

BMW to launch NYC tech incubator with $100M investment fund
Facebook now lets you turn your profile into a business page
Stock blogger is sued
Salesforce.com acquires the leading social media monitoring platform, $326M
Portugal pressured to take EU bail-out after new data

Reflective:

The Sartorialist Incites Commenter Fury after calling a Blogger 'Curvy'
Are smart people overrated?
Man vs Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market
Does Stress Affect Performance?
Can science explain the soul?

Wisdom:

Want Innovative Thinking? Hire from Humanities
Today's Innovation Can Rise from Yesterday's Failure
Greed is bad. Not good, BAD!
Google's Collateral Damage

March 28, 2011

Novelty:

Time to Review Car Insurance Policies
Why and How I Switched to a Standing Desk
Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming and Launch that Business!
NY Times and their delusional pricing strategy
2011 World's Most Ethical Companies
Paris and Chagall
France's Nazi collaboration is still a touchy subject

Reflective:

Geneticist against gene-doping
Social media's massive failure
Don't be nice; be helpful!
Wendell Berry: The Pleasure of Eating

Wisdom:

Six-Year-Old News Story Causes United Airlines Stock to Plummet
Culture trumps strategy, every time
We are now in the 2nd Internet bubble
Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999
Beware of innovations from daily-deal sites

Catalina's List

In my last rotation I was tasked with putting together an email with notes from the morning markets meeting and some accompanying articles. It turned into something more. Less notes, more articles. Less finance, more ideas. And people liked it. So I'm going to try to serve that market, given my new job and responsibilities. I will start by pulling together an email/blog weekly, and gauge it from there. If you send me your email, I’ll add you to the list that will get an update each time I post on my blog.

These are uncharted waters (especially since I don’t fully understand why you all like this email so much), so no promises. I realize that there are many other sources out there doing the same thing, drudge report and arts & letters daily to name two that I highly respect. What makes mine different? You tell me.

Here’s to adventure.

Catalina's List: March 21, 2011

Novelty:

• Kan Sees ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’ as Atomic Crisis Eases
• Times’s Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making
• Dip in Arts Attendance tied to Decline of the Omnivore
• The ability to memorise things seems to be a vanishing skill

Reflective:

• Are you doing a good job?
• Why You Should Have Sympathy for Gilbert Gottfried
• The real roots of yoga

Wisdom:

• Bring me stuff that's dead, please
• David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement 2005
• Don't ignore the lost generation
• Executives Speak Up, in Real-time, on Innovation, Financial Risk, Hiring and Other Concerns (video)
• The Coase Theorem in Action (comic)