September 2011
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August 2011
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My Columbia Business School interview →
Online Freight Brokers →
Import Genius is going to be the expedia of ocean freight.
March 2009
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Book Review: As a Man Thinketh
Cover via Amazon
Offering the best ROI from any book I’ve read in the last few years, “As a Man Thinketh” is a simple lesson in how your character is nothing more than the sum total of all your thoughts. Improve the quality of your thoughts, and you will literally become a better person.
The books’s profound and deeply satisfying message jibes very closely with the...
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WatchGreat ad from Coca Cola.
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“The quality of our lives is directly proportional to the expectations of our...”
– Anthony Robbins
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February 2009
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Mahalo's New Twitter Integration Will Be a Search...
Mahalo just launched a service that let’s you submit a question via twitter, which will then be answered by a real person in a crowd sourced sort of way.
My question today was simply “how often does the average person clip their finger nails?” — something I’ve been wondering because I swear I’m having to do this way too often.
About two hours later I googled...
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WatchFreshies at Kirkwood.
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Gold Mining in Placerville, California
We finally entered the abandoned gold mine in my parents’ backyard in Placerville, California. Here’s the video:
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Seven Words to Make You Thirsty
Without a doubt, the finest beer marketing slogan ever crafted: “Hormone About Man in Society of Business.”
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ImportGenius.com Featured on Wired.com
Wired’s new article about Obama’s efforts to bring more transparency to government contained a nice section about my company, ImportGenius.com:
“Other data-driven innovations are more serendipitous. The Arizona-based startup ImportGenius tracks U.S. imports and exports by scouring bills of lading data, and then sells it to firms looking to keep an eye on the competitors. The...
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WatchTED video montage by BrainPicker
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WatchAn appeal to virtue and wisdom in place of rules.
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Live Webcast: Joseph Stiglitz on the Economic...
A letter to Columbia Business School alums announcing the event:
Dear Alumni: As part of Columbia Business School’s ongoing series addressing our community’s concerns about the current economic crisis, we are pleased to announce an upcoming forum featuring Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, Professor and Executive Director and Co-founder of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at...
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NYC Networking Events
Alan Cordova keeps cranking out his amazing list of NYC networking and professional events: http://nyc-events.blogspot.com/
A great resource worth subscribing too.
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Obama Art Gallery
It took a while to sit down and pull the pics off the iPhone. Follow this link to see lots of amazing art work inspired by Obama’s presidential campaign.
http://playthegameoflife.org/tagged/art
These works were all on display at an incredible space on M Street in Georgetown for 3-days leading up to the inauguration last month.
Note that there are two pages, so be sure to click on the...
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Book Review: George Washington, Spymaster
If you’re intersted in U.S. history then George Washington, Spymaster provides a great story as well as respite from some of more scholarly / academic books on the subject.
When you think about it, very few wars have ever been so ripe for spying. The supporters of both sides were made up of British subjects living in America, separated only by the fact that some remained loyal to the crown...
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Six Books to Make You More Interesting
A friend just asked me for some book recommendations. Here’s my top six as sent to him:
The best book I’ve read in a long time (maybe ever) is The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. I can’t recommend this enough, its combines modern pscyhology and neuroscience with ancient wisdom to figure out what makes us happy. The next top five book...
Be kind to your plant and animal relatives. Today is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birthday!
The best part about the Kindle is that you can read while eating a burrito. When both hands are on the burrito, regular books will flip shut
Just found a blog post I wrote in November 2007 called “Why Google is a Steal at $630.” DOOHH!!! http://tinyurl.com/cvm7wc
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Lunch at NYT and dinner at Google. Subsidized corporate dining doesn’t get any better than this!
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Training Session: Coaching for Improved Sales...
Eric Baron, one of my favorite professors at Columbia Business School, recently invited me to attend a training seminar called “Coaching for Improved Sales Performance” next month. The session is designed to help sales managers work with their teams to improve their results. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, I’m very excited to attend at the start of March.
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NY Times gorgeous lobby! http://twitpic.com/1fo30
Having lunch with a friend at the NY Times http://twitpic.com/1fnzu
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Is there a name for when you put something away specifically so you won’t lose it, but can’t remember where that special place was?
Why Google should abandon blogger and throw some of its might behind Wordpress (or Tumblr): http://tinyurl.com/cf9bzj
My new blog is live: http://playthegameoflife.org