| Top Content For You This Week | | | Founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, passed away today. I never met the man personally and now I never will. I only had one semi-personal interaction with Steve Jobs and I thought it was a good time to share it. Before I met the wife I had a girlfriend named Rebecca. Rebecca had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was a rough time in her life and she was very depressed by it, even though chemotherapy was healing her over time. Rebecca was a big fan of Pixar films. I knew Steve Jobs had also been battling cancer and was a big part of the Pixar company. I d... Read More » |
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| | I've been an Apple devotee all my life. I grew up on the products of Mr. Jobs's imagination. I wrote BASIC on an Apple //e, I composed poetry on a Mac Plus, I learned Photoshop on a Performa, I chatted with friends on a blueberry iMac, I played games on a G4 cube, I took lecture notes on an iBook, I created websites with a MacBook, I designed educational software for the iPad, I helped bring Quora to the iPhone. These devices have shaped my friendships, my personality, my education, and my career. They have taught me the value of good desi... Read More » |
| | | | | | Some key pieces: - Visionary leadership: Jeff Bezos built an online retailer before most people knew what the Internet was. He was talking about what he called the "machine-to-machine Web" before the term "web services" was even coined.
- Customer focus: Amazon is driven by serving customers and creating value for them, not by beating competitors or by winning any piece of some pre-existing market. This helps keep them focused on a consistent strategy (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news...) and prevents them from wasting resources on me-too or copy...
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| | | | | | Traditional, 9-to-5 jobs seem to be playing less and less of a role in today's economy. How can we support people who have lost their jobs who want to start their own small businesses, through the tax code or otherwise? |
| | | | | | I'd like to take you down another path. All means of production of food in the United States and elsewhere are a drain on the ecosystem in one way or another. Modern societies produce, transport, and consume food as a commodity, which means all steps along the way are tailored to be as cheap and as fast as possible. Producing rice, soy, and beans, staples of a vegan diet, requires massive operations which carve swaths of land from the ecosystem. Harvest is a killer, both of animals and humans, depending on the country it is performed in. A... Read More » |
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