Kauffman Labs | Entrepreneurship Education (tags: jobs) Haidt, Graham et al. – Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Roots of an Individualist Ideology by Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham, Peter Ditto, Jonathan Haidt Libertarians are an increasingly vocal ideological group in U.S. politics, yet they are understudied compared to liberals and conservatives. Much of what [...]

The bowling pin strategy cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog Any company where the value's in the network – focus on one specific area and then expand. Example – Facebook at Harvard Whites in Shining Armor when there are problems in the third world, whites in shining armor come to the rescue. Local charities and NGO's [...]

Companies have a problem on their sign in page: they need new users to register, and they need returning users to log in. Usually they have two separate forms, or one group gets short shrift. Jakob Nielsen pointed out Amazon’s design in his latest Useit column, and the more I’ve looked at it the better [...]

Tech startups are changing the way workers are screened and hired. – By Jill Priluck – Slate Magazine In a hiring climate in which companies find talented workers by seeing how they already perform, the RethinkDB founders turned to sites like Github.com and stackoverflow.com, where programmers collaborate and work on special projects. "You can see [...]

This semester’s going to be the toughest semester I’ve had in terms of demands on my time. My goal this semester is just to show up, which Woody Allen says is “90% of life.” If I can be reliable and turn in assignments when I’m supposed to, show up to parties when I’m supposed to, [...]

Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman – an outline Cool site, they post outlines of books, quality looks decent too. Def should check this out more often. Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity 5 neuroscience professors go river rafting for a week, no phones or email. Mr. Kramer says the group has become [...]

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I didn’t work so hard (almost exclusively from male patients) 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my [...]

Live Life as an Experiment – Peter Bregman – Harvard Business Review What I had left, I realized, was nothing. Which was the exact strategy I was practicing. "I'd like to return this," I said to the sales person behind the cash register, "and I know you charge a restocking fee — which you have [...]

where to get started with learning ruby on rails Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Plan.txt : The Most Effective Productivity Tool That You’ve Never Heard Of The Law of Action Planning: No rigid rules or systems for figuring out “what to do when” can work effectively for more than a few weeks before becoming [...]

I noticed that when I hiked at the front of the group I had lots of energy, and wanted to hike quickly, but when I hiked at the back I got tired more easily. I am sure that this difference is mental, and I wonder why that would be. Maybe if you were someone at [...]