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Raised in South Africa. Educated at Harvard. Excited about building bridges and experimenting @Xfund

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“It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing” - Steven P. Jobs

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Good Eats, Greater Boston (but mostly Cambridge)

A collaborative map.

Cities and Ambition… or why we live in Cambridge. An essay by Paul Graham.

/// Reading on Startups

Curated Y Combinator Startup Wiki (Thanks Gabriel Weinberg).

A16Z Library

The99Percent/ Making Ideas Happen

37Signals/Rework

Elements of Sustainable Companies

VentureHacks

The Founder’s Library

A (Short) Introduction to Stocks & Options

Rob Go’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community

“Business Plans”, no. VentureHacks

/// Reading on User Experience Design

Paul Graham Essay on Design: Taste for Makers

Designing the Obvious

The Elements of User Experience

Don’t Make Me Think

Universal Principles of Design

52Weeks of UX

TypographyMatters

A Kerning Game

Looking for design help?

Elegant.ly (Where designers find amazing startups)

Sotfolio.com (37Signal tool to find design firms by location and price)

/// Preparing for trip to Africa

15 Tips by @whiteafrican

/// Inspiration

Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Citizenship In A Republic, Teddy Roosevelt

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