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A while ago I made my first hire for my current business. It’s been years since the last time I hired someone in a permanent position. It was that time again.

It was a great opportunity to consider: H…

Well, what’s the purpose of the way we design our society?

To me, it must be to design a system that enables and encourages the greatest growth and happiness for everyone. Of course, that’s hard to de…

The purpose of intellectual property rights is to encourage the most creativity in a society. That’s why they were invented. In the words of Thomas Jefferson:

Society may give an exclusive right to t…

As a teacher, my primary asset is my own story, my own experience. Yet I still have this jante law programming against talking about myself. That’s why it was such a relief to come across this paragra…

Awesome video from Nike:

Via Fearless Revolution.

A few days ago as I was cooking a lasagne for my kids, and I thought to myself: This stuff is really time-consuming and messy! We’d been juice-fasting for a few days, and the contrast to shopping for,…

Derek Sivers:

Via Christine Eilvig

David Hawkins’ Power vs Force:

The inadequacy of the answers we receive is a direct consequence of the limitations implicit in the viewpoints of the questioner. Slight errors in the formation of ques…

Tim Ferriss:

any times in the last five years, I’ve been asked: “If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be?”

My answer is always the same: Richard Feynman.

Richard Feynman has…

Dave Winer:

However, Google is moving away from the open web. Most of its investments are going to create a competitor to Facebook, although they deny it’s just a competitor. From the point of view o…