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What Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common is a real intellectual curiosity. They want to understand how the world works.
A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it.
When I joined Google I really believed that they would be out of business within a year just because a lot of startups failed, most startups fail. And so for me it was about getting that experience.
As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
Unfortunately the way that a lot of people do it is they take the most interesting job that happens to be randomly offered to them over the phone every several years.
I'm really not fit to be an employee of any other enterprise and that’s how I ended up as an entrepreneur.
Here's what two excellent sociologists have concluded about marriage today: Thanks to falling working-class wages, the outsourcing of American manufacturing, the thinning of company benefits, and the rise of part-time […]
I made every possible first-year mistake that a first-year manager can make.
A paper titled "Welcome to My Brain" has been published in the journal Qualitative Inquiryby Sage which is so unintelligible that it is baffling beyond belief. Unfortunately, the paper is […]
If there is no drama in a meeting it has no purpose for being.
I'm not sure we can harness desire into identity in a way that doesn’t do some violence to it.
If I'm looking to find out what is the case with the war and whether the war is legitimate, I'm probably not going to be fully satisfied with the New York Times or theWashington Post or Fox News or CNN.
Is there something left of the human that can’t be dehumanized and what is this power to humanize or to dehumanize?
Cameras are part of war-waging and they’re also part of the way in which a general population assesses what is happening.
Americans should be aware that sugars subtly creep into their diets through fruit juices, caffeinated beverages, sweetened breakfast foods, and especially sodas. They can, and do, add up.
A new report shows worrisome incompetence among Air Force nuclear missile launch officers.
To condemn the riots that rocked Belfast last Friday as "shameful", as the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers has done, fails to address the two conflicting […]
New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft has just been given the go-ahead to begin manned test flights of its P12 jetpack. If all goes well, a (very expensive) version could be on the market in as little as two years.
Facing up to 90 years of jail time for leaking classified documents, Bradley Manning apologized during the sentencing phase of his trial.
Do you know what a “tiger mom” is? Does the phrase “the tipping point” immediately bring Malcolm Gladwell to mind? “Idea entrepreneurs,” argues John Butman, are a new and influential breed, driven primarily by passion for an idea and the desire to spread it.