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• December 29th 2008
  10,000 hours, more or less...
  Interesting and nuanced take on Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers.
• December 17th 2008
  How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft...
  this would be the money quote: "When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'" of course, when you're much closer to being old and dying...
• December 17th 2008
  Flow Charts
  
• December 16th 2008
  The SEC, Madoff and XBRL
  Mark Cuban: "XBRL is here and ready, but our government isnt using it for anything it does. Tracking the bailout would be a perfect application for XBRL. There is absolutely no reason why we couldnt or shouldnt use it since all technical systems and reporting requirements would be new and could easily be built around XBRL."I wonder if Mark has a change.gov account?
• December 11th 2008
  Best Careers 2009: Politician/Elected Official
  Er, umm, something's changed...
• December 10th 2008
  TV Has License to Kill Movies at iTunes, Netflix
  from DariingFireball
• December 10th 2008
  Jazz Quotes-the wisdom of jazz
  A good list of quotes, but missing one of my favorites. When asked what he does when he plays a wrong note, Miles Davis rasps, "I play it again!"
• December 10th 2008
  More time = shorter letter
  timeless quotes on writing.
• December 9th 2008
  Sunlight Foundation » Obama and Affirmative Disclosure
  John Wonderlich lauds Obama transition team's efforts at providing transparency. That's change.gov we can believe in...
• December 7th 2008
  Who Are the Better Managers -- Political Appointees or Career Bureaucrats?
  Excellent question. Is change possible or even useful?