February 2012
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 17th
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Feb 14th
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The magic behind crowdsourcing @kickstarter explained by co-founder Creative Mornings / New York
Feb 12th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 2nd
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“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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January 2012
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Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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“‘Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at...”
– William Blake
Jan 25th
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“European privacy norms are founded on French and German ideas of “personal...”
Jan 22nd
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Collaborative Fund: Quiet Leaders Build Lasting... →
collaborativefund: “The US’s mood was at its most humble when its actual achievements were at their most extraordinary.” -David Brooks Humility is not about being a martyr or abandoning one’s own interests, desires, and suppressing competitive drive. It’s not about shunning success, money, acclaim,…
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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“Most commentary on social media ignores an obvious truth—that the value of...”
– Social media provides huge opportunities, but will bring huge problems, says our Schumpeter columnist. Everyone will need better filters—editors, analysts, middle managers and so on—to help them extract meaning from the blizzard of buzz. (via theeconomist)
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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“Real leaders, wrote the novelist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us...”
– When his ship was stranded for two years, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton faced compelling leadership decisions that offer many lessons for the business struggles of today.
Dec 27th
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Dec 20th
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“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via jacecooke)
Dec 18th
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“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– LOUIS! Louis C.K. sold over 100k copies of his special, making more than $500k.  (via adampritzker)
Dec 14th
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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1 of 17: 7 trends for Planning Post-oil Cities.
futurecapetown: In the first article in our series of 17 Sustainable Ideas for COP17, Robert Bowen reviews the Masters Thesis of Allen Rhodes, entitled Planning the Post Oil City. The trends highlight the obstacles or challenges faced in living in a city without oil but also illustrate the small steps that can be taken in overcoming them. Will oil-producing nations involved in the COP17...
Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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“Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish...”
– Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace
Nov 26th
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Nov 20th
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coursekit: “Words have meaning, and type has spirit - so the combination is spectacular.” - PBS Arts’s series Off Book interviewed designers of all mediums, in an attempt to reveal why we need visuals everywhere, every day. 
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“The small business is the idealized social form of our time. Our culture hero is...”
– New York Times / Sunday Review / November 12, 2011
Nov 15th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 10th
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