Archive for the ‘entrepreneurship’ Category
- Weekend reading
Dan Pink on the science of motivation – a Ted Talk
Born to Run: if you are a runner, run get this book and wiggle your toes at the shoe giants!
Startup advice: Evaluating risk and opportunity as a human by Paul Buchheit.
Homage to Alan Turing.
- Examing ideas of success and failure
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. An interesting Ted talk:
- Boring
Thanks to all the friends who emailed me this New York Times article. I am not sure what they are trying to tell me but
but according to the latest research “[...] warm, flexible, team-oriented and empathetic people are less likely to thrive as C.E.O.’s. Organized, dogged, anal-retentive and slightly boring people are more likely to thrive.” Slightly boring? Really?(c) Photo by Manuel Bordallo
- David versus Goliath
Underdog war. An awesome read in The New Yorker.
- Entrepreneurship
Steve Balmer on entrepreneurship, his remarks at Stanford University in early may are a fun read. It is nice to have a long term view.I think it’s just a phenomenal time to be starting all kinds of companies
