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November, 2005

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A stunningly good blog

I rarely devote an entire entry to one blog, but this one deserves it:
Road to Forbes: ksblog
She’s witty, cocky, entrepreneurial–and unbelievably smart. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop.

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New Carnival of Personal Finance is up

It’s up at Frugal for Life today.
I’ve been a little lazy about posting these, so if you want to see the last few carnivals, here’s the schedule.
What’s a Carnival? Flexo’s description is better than anything I could write:
A ‘Carnival’ is a weblog post that brings attention to some of the week’s most interesting [...]

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Your College is Not a Technical School

I went to school with some of the smartest people in the world–people whose knowledge and insight would stun you regularly–but you wouldn’t always know it. Maybe it was the guy who didn’t know how to pump his own gas, or the girl whose monotone voice and paragraph-long questions made me want to jump off [...]

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Am I an elitist pig?

I was in New York for a few days, so back to regular posting.
I ran across this blog entry yesterday, which is pretty thought-provoking:
Ramit Sethi’s otherwise-great site I Will Teach You to Be Rich is a classic example of rich-person thinking; he assumes that people in their 20s can afford to take risks in their [...]

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Speaking at an HBS conference this Saturday

I’m speaking at a Harvard Business School conference on November 19 here in Palo Alto on the future of marketing and business. There’s a description and, if you want to attend, discounted tickets below.
FYI, it’s a Saturday morning from 8:30am-1:00pm.
If you’re still interested, read on…
Participants include CEOs, CTOs, founders, entrepreneurs, Wall Street and [...]

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A CEO in the wrong bucket is still in the wrong bucket

Corporations use all kinds of big phrases to obfuscate what they’re saying. Things like “that’s a good kludge” and “let’s grab the low-hanging fruit” are common around offices everywhere.
But surely one of the worst words ever created–and I do mean created–is “bucketize.” Companies and employees often say things like “What bucket do we put that [...]

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