Monthly Archives: January 2013

12 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos

12 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos

A world safe for 39-year-olds

A world safe for 39-year-olds Or maybe even soon-to-be 47-year-olds.

Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Low Scoring Teams: Better Than You Might Expect

Low Scoring Teams: Better Than You Might Expect by Dave Cameron FanGraphs Baseball

Blog: 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Trying And Failing To Sell The “Cable TV Isn’t Ripping Off Non-Sports Consumers” Myth

Trying And Failing To Sell The "Cable TV Isn't Ripping Off Non-Sports Consumers" Myth by Rob 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog

Charlie Rose – Roger McNamee

Charlie Rose – Roger McNamee

Blog: TED Blog: How to pick the right movies to share with kids: Some tips and thoughts from Colin Stokes

How to pick the right movies to share with kids: Some tips and thoughts from Colin Stokes by Kate Torgovnick TED Blog

Blog: Marginal Revolution: Does Cable TV Ripoff People Who Don’t Like Sports?

Does Cable TV Ripoff People Who Don’t Like Sports? by Alex Tabarrok Marginal Revolution

Blog: Brain Pickings: Gorgeous Vintage British Road Safety Ads, 1939-1946

Gorgeous Vintage British Road Safety Ads, 1939-1946 by Maria Popova Brain Pickings

Blog: kottke.org: Your phone is not at Wayne Dobson’s house

Your phone is not at Wayne Dobson's house by Aaron Cohen kottke.org

Blog: Svbtle Featured: The product qualified lead (PQL)

The product qualified lead (PQL) by Tomasz Tunguz Svbtle Featured

Blog: Via Meadia: Memo to CA GOP: Change or Die

Memo to CA GOP: Change or Die by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia

Blog: askblog: The Minimum Wage and the Three Axes

The Minimum Wage and the Three Axes by Arnold Kling askblog

Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: Les Miserables – Movie Review

Les Miserables – Movie Review by (author unknown) Dilbert.com Blog

My Faith: A Confession – Justin Erik Halldór Smith

My Faith: A Confession – Justin Erik Halldór Smith “So I get sin, but I don’t get what it means to say that Christ died for my sins. I just don’t get it.”

21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words

21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words

What are the optimal biases to overcome?

What are the optimal biases to overcome? From Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought. RIP.

Blog: Dan Ariely: Facing the truth is a terrible way to be happy.

Facing the truth is a terrible way to be happy. by danariely Dan Ariely

Blog: Ben Casnocha: Book Notes: Religion for Atheists

Book Notes: Religion for Atheists by Ben Casnocha Ben Casnocha

Comment From Kathy Sierra: The Why-Who Cares-So What rule

Comment From Kathy Sierra: The Why-Who Cares-So What rule “When I taught programming at Sun, we called it the Why-Who Cares-So What? rule (a variation on the Five Why’s). You imagine the most skeptical coder challenging you after you describe a feature, approach, API , etc. but they don’t just stop with the first “why”. […]

Blog: Science: The Oldest Rock In The World Tells Us A Story

The Oldest Rock In The World Tells Us A Story by (author unknown) Science