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Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend.
I love this passage from the Steve Jobs bio:
When the deal was taking shape Jobs told Ellison, “You know, Larry, I think I’ve found a way for me to get back into Apple and get control of it without y…
From 100% certainty to 0% certainty
Back at Wisdom 2.0, Daniel Siegel shared a perspective with a group of us that really clicked for me. I wanted to share that with you here.
Dan Siegel is a neuroscientist exploring how our brains work…
Centralization of power
I had an interesting conversation with Ryan Higgins from Mind Movies a week ago. He’s deeply into politics, and we talked about one of the core the problems with government and politics: Centralizati…
Riding the bull
Gotta love DHH. He doesn’t hold back at all:
Now isn’t that swell. Enable people with an extreme financial incentive to spin the truth, or outright lie about the numbers, a 5-year get-out-of-jail cov…
Redefining who we are and why we are here
I’ve been reading Birth 2012 (which I wish was available for iBooks) and came across this quote in the chapter by Neale Donald Walsch:
We must rewrite the story of Who We Are and Why We Are Here such…
Instagram as pink slime
Dave Winer on users being the product, as in Facebook and Instagram:
But just to begin, for vendors it means charging users a fair price for a service provided. And in return, a promise not to aggreg…
Conscious Capitalism Conference
I’d love to go to this conference on conscious capitalism, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it. Bummer.
Thank You!
In my search for the source of the thing about Maya Angelou in my last post, I came across this story from Oprah about a conversation with Maya Angelou:
One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in …
No matter what happens
Steven Pressfield seems to be gearing up to his new book, Turning Pro:
No matter what happens, up or down, in the world of the marketplace or the sphere of “what other people think of our stuff,” we …
Ranking and linking
Ranking and lin…