Lately I’ve been scouring the nets and local book-lenders for guidance and inspiration on writing. I stumbled on this at Nieman Storyboard [recommended, and the source of this post's title]: Now, just as I don’t know what a story is going to be when I start out working on it, I have no idea how to [...]
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A few years ago I started developing what I call the “open conceptual enterprise.” The idea is that we need to rethink our basic assumptions about business not just in the context of different kinds of businesses but in the context of all types of human enterprise. By “enterprise” I mean the general impulse to [...]
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Somehow I missed a whole summer of Paul Graham essays. Anyways I’m on top of things again — and after reading one of his latest I browsed over to see what’s new at Y Combinator. If you don’t know (I might not nail all the details but here’s the gist), Y Combinator provides seed-stage funding and support [...]
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As I write this I’m watching this conversation, part of Harvard Business School’s centennial celebration, with John Doerr, Jeffrey Immelt, James Wolfensohn, Meg Whitman, and Anand Mahindra. To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting much, but it turned out to be pretty interesting and insightful. At the very least it’s refreshing to see top business leaders referring directly [...]
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