May 2013
5 posts
3 tags
2 tags
April 2013
4 posts
big swinging...
I’ve always loved this at the bottom of http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/. Ya, sorry, we’re out doing what we do.
If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above or e-mail us at berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response.
March 2013
7 posts
“Do it big, do it right and do it with style.”
– Fred Astaire (via theimpossiblecool)
““Leadership is associated with taking an organization into the future, finding...”
– http://blogs.hbr.org/kotter/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leadership.html
“Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you...”
– Bertrand Russell (via explore-blog)
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement…
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via austinbryan)
Wise
February 2013
9 posts
[m]any way[s]
January 2013
2 posts
“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast...”
– Louis CK
December 2012
1 post
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– François-René de Chateaubriand (via love4excitement)
November 2012
1 post
Facebook and Windows 8 Hackathon to support...
On November 30th, join the Facebook and Windows teams to start building social apps for Windows 8! The MSFT teams will be on hand to support you as you explore what’s possible using the newly-released Windows 8 SDK.
Don’t speak .NET? No problem. If you’re a web programmer, you’ll be able to build native apps using HTML5 and JavaScript. Don’t have Windows on your...
October 2012
1 post
August 2012
2 posts
Watchbombing hills
July 2012
1 post
“Two out of three of them have passports,” Zogby says. “They are...”
– http://www.npr.org/2012/07/10/156463825/globals-generation-focuses-on-experience
June 2012
6 posts
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry David Thoreau
May 2012
3 posts
“Literate people think differently to illiterate ones and the internet will no...”
– kevin kelly in the guardian
Moving on
After an incredible year and a half I’m leaving Kauffman in June.
My time at the Foundation provided me a wide-angle view on startup/entrepreneurship from research and policy, to theory and capital to practice. ‘I’ve learned a lot’ is the understatement of the year. We, collectively, have accomplished much in recent years, but there’s still a long way to go. I hope...
“the colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will...”
– edwin h. friedman
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
10 posts
Each of the engines weighs nearly nine tons, and... →
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Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques...
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No...
