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Great article on the value of persistence: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/bregman/2009/11/how-not-achieving-something-is.html

In the past few weeks I met a few seasoned executives who had reached a point in their lives where they had saved enough to take on additional risk and were looking forward to experiencing the thrill of joining a startup. What is interesting is that for the most part they felt that they should join [...]

Over the past few years I have often felt like Cassandra with my dire and pessimistic economic predictions. This fundamental pessimistic outlook was so contrary to my fundamentally optimistic outlook on life that during the past few months I have essentially stopped making political economic analysis. I did not want to be “that guy” – [...]

Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/opinion/14trillin.html?_r=3

I had the pleasure of being invited to attend the Liberty Media Net Leaders Forum. The forum was fantastic featuring great presentations from Mark Mahaney, the star Internet analyst from Citigroup, and a chat between John Malone and Greg Maffei, respectively Chairman and CEO of Liberty Media. Reed Hastings’ discussion of the lessons he learned [...]

I have always been a fan of Ben Stein’s articles. I find this one both intriguing and amusing: http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/magazines/fortune/children_value_benefits.fortune/index.htm

The article is 9 months old, but extremely interesting and worth a read: http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/01/07/John-Paulson-Profits-in-Downturn/

http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/02/mark-zuckerberg-the-evolution-of-a-remarkable-ceo/

A must read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html