July 2009
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Jul 31st
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Listen Movits! - “2 Dollar på fickan” -...
Jul 31st
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Listen Fugees - “Fu Ge La (3 Mixes)” -...
Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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“I’m gonna sine your pitty on the runny kine. Imma sine, cappa my jammy. ...”
– Pootie Tang is our generation’s Nietzche
Jul 30th
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Listen Lauryn Hill - “Tell Him”. Mmmm hmm.
Jul 30th
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Listen Mongo Santamaria - “We Got Latin...
Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Listen Milt Jackson - “The Metal Mether”....
Jul 27th
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Listen Cannibal Ox - “The F Word” - The...
Jul 24th
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Listen Run-DMC - “Here We Go” - Live at the...
Jul 23rd
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“I just broke a G string while fingering A minor.”
– A bit of guitar humor, courtesy of my “guitar” search in TweetDeck.
Jul 23rd
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Bigger Isn't Better For VC Funds
caterpillarcowboy: gbattle: I disagree with your premise on why VC’s want to launch bigger funds, David. Nobody is retiring off of the management fees at VC firms. They just don’t raise enough capital for that 2% to significantly moves the risk-adjusted needle, especially across partners, associates and support. I don’t expect we’ll ever see mega-VC’s like we do mega-hedge funds today where...
Jul 21st
Bigger Isn't Better For VC Funds
I disagree with your premise on why VC’s want to launch bigger funds, David. Nobody is retiring off of the management fees at VC firms. They just don’t raise enough capital for that 2% to significantly moves the risk-adjusted needle, especially across partners, associates and support. I don’t expect we’ll ever see mega-VC’s like we do mega-hedge funds today where...
Jul 21st
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gary: AOL doing things I think many people should be doing….I am serious! I really think what AOL is doing is very smart and I think many other platforms should be following the model! The de facto strategy among the large portals for well over a decade has been aggregating content creation under the umbrella of the greater brand - AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft.  However, as average internets user...
Jul 21st
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“We all bring a piece of the puzzle to the table that forms Voltron.”
– U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan deftly mixing/confusing 3 metaphors to describe his crew
Jul 20th
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Satirical media network The Onion has been sold to a consortium of Chinese businessmen. See the subtle changes to their morning news show above.
Jul 20th
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Listen Brent Mason - “First Rule of Thumb”....
Jul 20th
Jul 19th
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Listenthedailywhat: New Music! Beastie Boys (feat....
Jul 19th
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Listen Baby Huey - “Hard Times”. ...
Jul 19th
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“If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and...”
– Darrell Huff in his 1954 classic, “How To Lie With Statistics”.   The book ends with a brilliant quote from Mark Twain: “There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Listen Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - “I Put A...
Jul 19th
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Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan star in “White Men Can’t Stump”.  Fast forward past the Obama speech for the drama. [via]
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
Jul 17th
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An Improviser's OS →
I relate a bunch of learning concepts across disciplines to how I learned music. The guitarist Wayne Krantz captures the essence of my approach to learning things so well in the below explanation of his book, An Improviser’s OS.  Replace “guitar” with “spanish” or “graphic design” or “brick laying” - the point is that mastery through...
Jul 17th
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Listen Wayne Krantz - “Tomorrow Never...
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Listen Andy Summers - “Evidence” - Green...
Jul 17th
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Bill Gates and Others Listed as Inventors for... →
Needless to say, if past performance is any indicator, get ready for real life physical versions of the BSoC (blue screen of death). I love it when marketing geniuses/technology lightweights try and rotate their genius and fail.  This will become a future HBS case study on “value destruction.”
Jul 13th
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“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for...”
– Zig Ziglar
Jul 13th
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Listen Ed Cherry - “The Spirits Speak”....
Jul 13th
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Listen Herbie Hancock - “Hang Up Your Hang...
Jul 13th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Listen Herbie Hancock - “Fat Mama”....
Jul 10th
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Listen Take 6 - “Spread Love”.  Truth in...
Jul 9th
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Excerpt from Wal-Mart's Twitter Policy →
While many of our 2.2 million associates around the world are using Twitter and other social networks, all official Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Twitter users will be identified on this landing page and will have a link back to this page from their Twitter profile. Unless otherwise noted, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. approved Twitter users will follow the following naming conventions of “business unit +...
Jul 9th
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Jul 9th
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Jul 8th
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GVOYW - (gratuitous video of yourself Wednesday) - Me singing {{gasp}} Men At Work’s “Overkill” on a boat.  Oh, don’t worry, I pretty much overkilled it. [face-palm] Shout out to my boy John DeMarchi from Saavn manning the camera with the “not bad” ad-libs.  Not bad, but not good either.
Jul 8th
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ListenOK, ok, you’re sick of MJ, nothing to see...
Jul 8th
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Listen Jose Feliciano - “Golden Lady”. ...
Jul 8th
Jul 7th
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Listen David Bowie - “Moonage Daydream”....
Jul 7th
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ListenMichael Jackson ft. Boogie Down Productions -...
Jul 4th