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