- What’s wrong with this picture?
Speakers for Cyberposium.
Cyberposium is the premier MBA technology conference in the world. Held annually at Harvard Business School, Cyberposium facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society.
The conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at the Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s TechMedia Club.
hmm… I guess current and future business leaders don’t include women? OK there are 4. That’s it? 4?
- Empathy
“selfish gene” has discovered that the most successful approach is to behave unselfishly.
- Gameness, vaccines, turtles, life and startups
On Offensive Play by Malcom Gladwell in the New Yorker [...] those who select for gameness have a responsibility not to abuse that trust: if you have men in your charge who would jump off a cliff for you, you cannot march them to the edge of the cliff.
Does the vaccine matter? The Atlantic
The women agenda: NYT reader submitted photographs from around the world illustrating the importance of educating girls. Some great shots!
From Science Friday: Michael Musnick is a citizen scientist who studies wood turtles in the Great Swamp — a stretch of wetland about 60 miles north of New York City. He found turtles dying in the railroad tracks and proposed a solution to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority: tiny turtle bridges.
There are close to 1.7 billion Internet users in the world. The network by the numbers.
Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumdai and Jakarta. His Foreign Policy photo essay is enlightening!
Best young entrepreneurs of 2009 from BusinessWeek and yes the list includes women!
Interview with Ken Segall, the man who named the iMac and wrote Think Different.
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Errol Morris in conversation with Bill Ganzel in the New York Times.
Migrant mother then:
and now:
(Copyright Bill Ganzel)
- You stop moving and you die.
[...] web software is like a shark. You stop moving and you die.
- Bye Bye Nicaragua. Hello Toronto. Weekend reading (late)
I am back after a few weeks of surfing, running and a visit to Nicaragua. Photos to come very soon, but you can get started here.
Have you ever done a daily mug shot for a year, a few months or weeks? I got curious a while back and started it but quickly dropped it – you know how it goes, no time for anything! But this time around I am combining it with my running, so almost every time I get out there I will capture a shot. Daily.What I have been reading:
- Exceptional colour photographs from Russia in the early 1900’s
- What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times. Or living on 500,000 a year.
- One of the few pleasures of going on the Internet on a Sunday is reading Paul Kedrosky’s “Weekend Reading.” In his column, Kedrosky regularly summarizes the business week past, hints at the news to come in the coming week, and lists articles to read to explain what it all means. The MIT Sloan Review is introducing The Pile: a new weekly feature on improvisations (their blog) and the links are worth a visit!
- Google redefines disruption: the “less than free” business model.
- The evolution of Apple Design between 1977-2008.
- Tim Minchin: the best love song ever! If I didn’t have you.
- Speaking opportunities and resources for women in open source (a mailing list).
- Slate: Can crimes and crashes be blamed on bad genes?
- Oh Dear David Foster Wallace. RIP.
- San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua
I am in San Juan del Sur improving my running, surfing and swimming! San Juan del Sur is surprisingly awesome. I did not expect it to be the home of some pretty perfect beaches and great surfing.
Great runs lead to a lot of sweating but much fun. The temperatures here are above 25C daily but typically feel like above 30C. More photos here.
- Visiting Nicaragua: First Stop San Juan del Sur
I am in San Juan del Sur and the beaches are awesome, the people incredibly friendly, the running amazing and you can not beat Piedras Y Olas for 5 star treatment. But you know what’s even more amazing? Creative Common Licenses! Because below I am going to take you through San Juan Del Sur via CC! Because I am so totally lazy to actually process my photographs! Tomorrow I will post photographs of the dog I have been feeding at the edge of town – makes my 10 km daily run interesting. I need to get this little girl to trust me enough to get her to the vet. A few more days… a few more days…
Arriving in San Juan del Sur: Really that’s how it looks from above
and yes, the beach is pretty cool and I spend hours in swimming competition with the local boys – I have my total immersion book and we are learning quickly. By the way there are tons of sting rays in the sea. Tons! And they can sting you something fierce!
The sunsets are incredible. I am not a sunset kind of person so I keep missing them but hey… they are awesome I hear.
I read here in the mornings and the jays (that would be the birds!) are so incredibly noisy. There is also Orangina who comes to visit – this is the cat who somehow adopted me the moment I walked into this place! More about Orangina later…
There are over 200 steps to get to my room, so in addition to running 10 km a day to feed a homeless dog, I get a work out when I get back home. Mr. T and his 60 KM of weekly mileage would be pround: running + hill training all in one. Daily.
and the coffee at the Gato Negro coffee shop and bookstore saved me a couple of times already.
ok, enjoy these while I process all my photos!
- Anatomy of an Entrepreneur
I think that entrepreneurs are made of 99% perspiration! But the Kauffman foundation for entrepreneurship has a better idea. The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur released in the summer by the Kauffman foundation fprovides insights into high-growth founders’ motivations and their socio-economic, educational and familial backgrounds.
A team of researchers led by Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University, Raj Aggarwal of the University of Akron, Krisztina Holly of the University of Southern California and Alex Salkever of Duke University surveyed 549 company founders of successful businesses in high-growth industries, including aerospace, defense, computing, electronics and health care. I found what they unearthed fascinating – and at the same time not really in line with how I viewed entrepreneurs:
- Founders tend to be middle-aged and well-educated
- These entrepreneurs tend to come from middle-class or upper-lower-class backgrounds and they were better educated and more entrepreneurial than their parents
- Not typically college dropouts!
- Most entrepreneurs are married and have children – I don’t know how most of them do it since I can barely find the time to play with my dog!
- These entrepreneuers had an early interest in starting companies
- Their motivation for becoming entrepreneurs includes building wealth, owning a company, startup culture and capitalizing on a business idea
- The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies. Nearly half (47.9 percent) launched their first companies with more than ten years of work experience.
The report makes for an interesting read. I wonder how the statistics actually break down when comparing male to female entrepreneurs. Wondering if the motivations could be different.
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