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