Some Sheep Are Loners
April 2012
3 posts
“Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.”
—
Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life? Harvard Business Review, July 2010.
[mb: I disagree that it is “the most noble”. To me, managing is not sacrificial (and usually not selfless) enough for that claim. But the quote distills nicely what the core of managing should be about.]
micropoetry from ashalynd
If every pig could fly at once
And every square was round
Then I would have a better chance
To figure things out.
But pigs keep snorting in the dirt,
The angles push; the edges hurt.
And looking into other mind
Might make you feel both deaf and blind!
March 2012
4 posts
“The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers.”
—
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg
(via morganmissen)
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February 2012
1 post
An Interview With Earth →
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Some musings about evolution and our part in it by yours truly.
January 2012
6 posts
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair, Feb 2012) →
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On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
