• The one position every startup needs- Secret Weapon #2
  recession proof graduate strikes again
• The Event Strategy
  instead of blogging, host events - in some ways easier, plus you get access to email inboxes. the key is relationships with event location owners (restaurants, law firms, etc) and getting hitters to show up.
• Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness. - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine
• Elad Blog: You Don't Need A Good Idea To Start A Great Company
• software-fable - steveyegge2
  does a good job of making the video game industry sound like a horrible place to work. no job security, horribly tight deadlines, etc. steve yegge is also hilarious.

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• Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide
  For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet - OWASP

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• Why You're Probably Less Popular Than Your Friends: Scientific American
• Designing a prison system to fail
  sending inmates back to their old neighborhoods (even though 50% don't want to go), no college grants, no money, no methadone treatments
• Amy Chua Is a Wimp - NYTimes.com
• Original Conversation Starter Questions from TableTopics
• Trouble with groupon
  Growth fueled by expansion, buyer fatigue, stores realizing it's not worth it, tons of competition

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• New Congressional Intern Disillusioned With Politics and Democracy In Record 6 Minutes, 41 Seconds | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  WASHINGTON—Once-idealistic Penn State senior Marc Leitman set a congressional internship record Tuesday when, within seven minutes of his arrival on Capitol Hill, he became hopelessly disillusioned with American politics, having overheard his sponsoring senator offer a government contract to a construction company in exchange for free home renovations.

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• Roll your own masters in financial engineering
• Opinions | Meteuphoric
• Why is bad teaching attached to uni certification? | Meteuphoric
  separating the two would lead to better outcomes

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• The Cost of Entrenchment: Why CEOs Are Rarely Fired - Knowledge@Wharton
  His model does, however, predict that if the entrenchment cost went to zero -- meaning that sacking a CEO came with only financial costs and no intangible consequences -- the annual rate of CEO firings for the S&P 500 would go from 2% to 13%. That would result in a one-time bump in value for the S&P 500 of 3%.
• ASmartBear Knows What to Measure | chart.io
  Wilful Ignorance I asked Jason about whether companies place enough value on data: Jason: A lot of people don’t want to know the truth about their data. I find that at both the startup level and at bigger companies, a lot of people don’t want to know the truth about what’s going on. They don’t want to discover they are wrong, or bad at certain things or are failing. Some of the time, it’s just simple job preservation.
• Put This On
  what a blog
• Don't go to Nepal
• The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever | The Awl
  hilarious
• Why They Don't Answer Your Emails
• Speaker Placement for Home Theater
  this always bugged me. for the record, you want to stand where the sound will be, then put the right speaker to the right side of the center
• Kasasa - Explore All Products - Kasasa Saver
  3.5 percent interest on checking account, atm refunds, etc. crazy
• Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com

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• Why Group Buying Is Leaving Local Businesses Behind

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• Website Design Resources - Crowdsourced
  pretty awesome list

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• Virgil - Guiding your users to relevant resources [guest blog] - Atlassian Developer Blog
  finally got this posted
• Jeremy Grantham Q3 letter
  self-recommending

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• How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
  interesting
• Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Book Reviews: The Personal MBA and What They Don't Teach You at HBS
  "Business is a constant process of keeping your own guard up while encouraging others to lower theirs"
• How Much Does a Single Search Cost Google? - Bill Warner's Blog

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