» … besides news about Haiti, Google, #teamconan (awesome!), prorogation… » How Fiction Works, James Wood — not so much a how-to as a brilliantly curated conversation across time between some of the greatest authors about subtleties I’d never noticed, e.g. how characters are efficiently “got in,” etc. » The Design of Business, Roger Martin … who has [...]
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Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]
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I see a controversy on the horizon. It might not seem realistic now, but it could turn into one of those things where, by the time it actually presents itself, it’s too late to do anything about it and your opinion doesn’t even matter (like Wall Street excesses generating the financial crisis). So I’m speculating a [...]
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