Resource Spotting

On this page, I collect links that have made me think for a moment

FC gives an excerpt of a new book by Jeff Phillips on managing innovation. This fits into our thinking about more efficient use of shared space.

Bloomsbury Life talks about why one makes a big change to recapture self

An update on Project Icarus - a long, long term research project to figure out how to take man to another star.

Remembering Barney Rosset - Grove Press as a platform

A  great line - great i a process . about Jeremy Linn and NBA basketball

Github’s approach to making open source more open

Institutionalizing innovation - the bell labs model

Prince Charles on sustainable agriculture

The Economist on older entrepreneurs - combining two complex fields of expertise

A hymn to the mystery of disobedience

Hartf9ord seen in a purple light

Quantum Computing comes a step closer

That eclectic decorating style

international finance - why the institutional mess? Too small to lead?

keepers of the flame and such nonsense

how good are you at talent development?

Noam Scheiber looks at the Obamatrons

Who is learning faster? Smartphones pull innovation forward in PC and laptop markets

FC on the relationship between strategy and culture

Roth and the wrong way we went. Struggling to maintain a self that is unsustainable

Wired, on personal clouds, calendars and our expanding use of networks

some very cool photo images from Atlantic

Jim Fallows on the folly of assuming the worst about Iranian nukes

FC on succeeding by connecting to growth industries and finding the right boss.

FC and elevators to space’

The Economist on size versus barriers to growth’

the poetry of memory? from bloomsbury life

the world’s 10 largest economies 1990 and 2011

Tablet wars -ö with Apple in the drive4r seat

organic power generation - from waste water.

Breeding barley

dairy farming and the 1%

gm and resisting change Megan McCardle

smart phones and stupid people  Schumpeter

want to write better? John Steinbeck can help

roger Cohen on stop kony. Atlantic on the pushback. And this on what northern ugandans want. Salan weighs in as well.

Meanwhile a film about Sarah Palin. BI and five moments.

rare earth markets - nyt topics page. EU business offers a much shorter primer. And more on the mining market from mineweb

Judea Pearl and Baysean Networks

writing and speaking - paul graham on why writing is more useful

Mark Bittman on when a calorie is a calorie

homesickness and the illusion of connection 

using the absurd as a storyline in the Daily Show

Kennedy assassination redux

Atlantic on Wegmans

Jonah Lehrer has a new book on creativity - this interview helps us to see its value

electric car market teeters NYT

schultz and spin

thinking about BAM from FC

Cheryl Strayed goes wild’

confidence affects performance - larger images

Xbox and Apple TV

theft as the wrong paradigm for downloading

Rachel Maddow’s book Drift - on US and war powers

brain patterns - highway mapping from wired

noam chomsky interviewed by charlie rose

noam chomsky on obama - a conference with a question/answer session and a bit about Vietnam

lessons from the godfather

Madonna and the importance of surface

why did the ice age end?

What is a splashpage?

Optioning storylines - steve jobs and Isaacson

egg shell capaciters

the best food blogs for 2012

the significance of shiloh

will as a depletable resource

poultry safety issues

using cash flow to stay independent

Boston’s Citizen Connect

experts and incrementalism

looking bigger

entanglement experiment

fred on the music business trend to streaming

a dropbox for apps

is the government case against apple weak?

volatility in energy prices hurts solar

cameron’s strategic failures

tumblr unleashing creativity

apple and the trillion dollar step

new seo tool

huffpo’s pullitzer

Sadakat Kadri on Shariah

white shoe law firms in trouble?

why andressen did not go all in for instagram

Bill Gates as platform strtegist

the 40 20 40 rule

wendell berry and mark bittman

Freezing peas aint easy

max weber and steve jobs

The rebuttal

crowd funding for tough stuff

mirror neurons, white coats, up and down

charisma deconstructed

skylon as the future?

dewey’s descent into hell

great start up - making radiators more efficient - here is their website

lebron’s acting career

jdimps and self promotion

tolerance and prosperity - fred wilson

china and electric car markets

finding innovators

my cousin barney

seduction rules?

bertand russel on teaching

cardboard dueling

morganthau on offshore

utorrent rebranding

zynga’s demise? 

a global virtual network for mobile phones?

the big music labels cut back

AB Testing

authenticity and Danny Meyer

apple is post google in maps

kitchet brings world class to your table

habitat for Portland

Making small bets

The level of responsiveness with trunk club - catch that wave

hiring the best for the critical skill

Finally, you might check out how Ideo. FC reports.

thinking about bunny mellon

thinking about udemy

revolutionizing medicine?

and from Atlantic Magazine’

lost in translation

start up humor?

start ups an distributed systems. 

frugal traveling in Scandinavia

peter thiel, chess and start ups

peter thiel on the mythology of founders

thinking about ridley scott’s new movie

opportunistic acquisitions anyone?

free lance recommendation referrals.

Toibin’s new book about literary stuff

learning . technique versus substance

a global square?

badassity and credit cards

sinners and saints both

writing well - point of view and voice

when to quit

joe biden and megaupload

hacker hostel

seddrs starts up

freelancing ideas

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