How Great Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Luck | TechCrunch “premature focus can kill good ideas before they ever emerge”

News on the Internet is stuck (author unknown), Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog

Louisville-Cooperstown circuit has clout with baseball fans | The Columbus Dispatch Baseball road trip

Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Mass Localism for Improving America’s Education “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

danmessing If radio commercials have taught me anything, it’s that car dealerships and mattress stores are terrible at managing inventory.

Occupy Wall St and the taxation of high earnings | Martin Wolf’s Exchange | Economic commentary from the Financial Times – FT.com

baseballcrank Complete idiots do a lot less damage than fairly smart people who don’t know the limits of their intelligence.

The Tribal Mind: Moral Reasoning and Public Discourse — The American Magazine “We need to find a substitute for external threats as a social bonding agent.”

dcurtis Good work is safe. Great work is risky. Anyone can do good work. To do great work, you need to have nothing to lose.

What our Hands Have Wrought | Front Porch Republic Democrats tend to be suspicious of big business but they trust big government to rein in abuses; Republicans express suspicion of big government but no fear of economic centralization. Both are half right but half blind. Here is a principle that we would do well to […]