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Four Big Business Books To Start 2010

If you didn’t want to read about the collapse of the global financial system, there wasn’t a lot for you in the business book category in 2009. I have been posting reviews of the handful of my...

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Start with Being Annoyed

“Most of my big ideas – and a lot of the small ones – start with my being annoyed.” -Author Sarah A. Hoyt at Whatever The same thing happens to me, maybe you as well. I got annoyed by Chris Anderson’s...

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Tumbling Todd

Just wanted to let you know that I also have a Tumblr blog where all of my del.icio.us links, twitter posts, and flickr photos get posted. I also mention it because there are interesting photos,...

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Work and Play

Today, I finished the main work for the ebook I have coming out in two weeks. Feels really good. But I sent it out to some good friends for feedback, so we’ll see how I feel after that. I also picked...

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Ideas Need Air

I got out of my basement office yesterday and spent time with people I know in Milwaukee. I was reminded again that ideas get better when you talk about them. Face to face is better than phone and...

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SXSWi – Dangerous Curves

Rolf Skyberg from EBay gave a great talk at SXSWi called Dangerous Curves. He started with the idea that everyone has seen a hockey stick in their data before; the ever rising, totally exciting period...

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Idea Arena Podcast – Burst Interview with Albert-László Barabási

In this interview, I talk with Albert-László Barabási, author of Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do. Barabási has been on the forefront of research into network theory. His first book...

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Idea Arena Podcast – Cognitive Surplus Interview with Clay Shirky

In this interview I talk with Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. Shirky has been talking about the Internet on the Internet for over fifteen years...

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Idea Arena Podcast – The Big Thirst Interview with Charles Fishman

In this interview, I talk with Charles Fishman, the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. Fishman, a longtime writer for Fast Company Magazine and the author of The...

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Big Thinkers in HP Campaign

I ran across an HP ad on Business Insider that connected with me. The company gathered a set of big thinkers to talk about big ideas. The videos are produced by Big Think. Jason Fried – The New...

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Creators and Performers

Another angle to yesterday’s Taylor Swift post: The marketplace rewards the performers, the rainmakers that separate people from their money. CEOs. Professional Athletes. Gladiators. Scientists and...

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Free Friday

In the U.S. today, we see the incredible power of price on consumer behavior as millions of people storm retail stores around the country in search of bargain. One price point being used frequently is...

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Better Questions

I was in St. Louis yesterday and had the wonderful chance to catch up with a friend I hadn’t talked to in close to twenty years. She is a physical therapist and teaches at Washington University. Our...

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The Topics You’ll Find in “What Matters Now”

There is no doubt you should read all of What Matters Now, the new ebook from Seth Godin and 66 others. I am very excited to have been offered the opportunity to contribute a piece on Focus. You can...

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Book Review – Trade-off by Kevin Maney

Tucked in Neal Stephenson’s wonderful book Snow Crash is this comparison in a fictional future where all highways are owned by corporations: CSV-5 has better throughput, but Cal-12 has better...

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The Cut

Jesse from the Put This On1 blog was answering a question the other day from a reader who wanted to know what could be do to alter a vintage suit he had bought. The first sentence from his answer...

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Parti

A parti is the central idea or concept of a building A parti [par-TEE] can be expressed several ways but is most often expressed by a diagram depicting the general floor-plan organization of a...

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Ideas – An Illustrated Seven Step Guide on How to Kill Them

These awesome images are from illustrator Scott Campbell. The series was originally developed for a independent film group in Portugal. You check out a few more of the original concepts at Scott’s...

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Auto-Nation

“But songs trump singing all day long. Anybody can sing, especially in this auto-tune era. But being able to write a great song, one that grabs fans lyrically and melodically, that’s truly tough. And...

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