“Energy In Common: It’s like Kiva, but Greener”: http://bit.ly/bCBASe Wanna see more like this. Maybe the industry needs to mature more.
Author: Kanyi
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/589972621/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l27vv6VyyJ1qatcg0?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fkanyi%2F589972621%2Ftumblr_l27vv6VyyJ1qatcg0 Beach House – Walk In the Park. Some folks call the genre “Indie / Dreampop”. I don’t know if I can get behind that. Great tune, though.
Weight classes in prisons to slow down the rates of prisoner-on-prisoner rape? http://bit.ly/cHYuOZ Sounds pretty good to me.
Read these, in this order. Love this type of talk: http://bit.ly/8X9uDG, http://bit.ly/9yBFlf, http://bit.ly/aWcPFW (via @ezraklein @cdixon) I very clearly remember going to my Goldman Sachs interview, winter of Junior year, and thinking to myself, wow I could not have less interest in investment banking if I tried. But everyone else is doing it, it’s a lot of money, it’s safe, and it’s competitive as hell and really well marketed. A few short weeks later I’d […]
Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
“How to win Friends and Influence People” Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Arouse in the other person an eager want. – Dale Carnegie All of these guidelines still apply, 70 years later. This is so awesome.
Investor Acronyms of the day: ZOPA (Zone of Possible Agreement) BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) and NAMBLA (I kid, I kid. Get it? I kid? Sorry.)
Virgin Greenfund quietly investing in later stage Cleantech Start-ups: http://nyti.ms/dbZNoi I’ve been trying, for almost a year now, to figure out whether or not Venture Capital is in fact still a relevant asset class. My friend Adam suggests that it’s not. Not sure I agree, or that I understand why. Recently published research from the Kaufman Foundation suggests that since the boom of venture capital from 1980 or so, there hasn’t been a rise in […]
On the Modern Man
I submitted this short opinion piece to the 48hrmag.com project, and it wasn’t selected, as the other writers were all way better than me, and I’m looking forward to reading the magazine when it comes out, as should you. But I want to share my thoughts anyway. More to come, of course. The Masculine Mystique: Why it’s time to stop watching ESPN, and time to start hustling Gentlemen: we’ve got a problem. In many ways, this article is, […]
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/578062206/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l21ca7IocZ1qatcg0?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fkanyi%2F578062206%2Ftumblr_l21ca7IocZ1qatcg0 Oberhofer – o0Oo0Oo. Everybody’s talking about it. With good reason. Fun jam
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