YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: January, 2007

Back in the saddle

Well, the fabulous 3 week holiday break comes to a close, and I’m reminded again of reality as I stepped out of the subway here in Chicago, where it is easily 25 degrees colder than it was in Philadelphia. Global warming and its effects are abominable, but I could definitely get used to El Nino [...]

links for 2007-01-09

MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management (tags: Business management MIT education mba Courses Learning)

links for 2007-01-08

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance? — HBS Working Knowledge (tags: longtail business) Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way (tags: innovation) Technology Review: Shaping Babies (tags: futurism bioethics) A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (tags: visualization design reference information graphs)

links for 2007-01-07

Coding Horror: The Sugar UI (tags: ux UI OLPC) 7 Rules for Maximizing Your Creative Output (tags: creativity)

links for 2007-01-05

Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit (tags: cupcakes) MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.352 Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends, Spring 2005 | Home (tags: innovation course Sloan MIT reference)

links for 2007-01-04

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 We have so much to be optimistic about! (tags: optimism science future questions) Joplan.com | div_site (tags: css photoshop webdesign design)

links for 2007-01-03

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage (tags: vc business entrepreneurship startup paulgraham venture) Innovation lessons learned 2006 – from InnovationTools.com (tags: innovation creativity management leadership lessons 2006 lists)

links for 2007-01-01

Dos and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs, from Those Who Have Actually Done It – Knowledge@Wharton (tags: entrepreneurship business advice startup) Fireside Chat: John Maeda and Diego Rodriguez – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) (tags: design usability toread simplicity)

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