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I've tried to read this book several times -- if I'd only known that I could just watch it on Youtube, it would have saved me plenty...

I wish I were confident that if I were a multi-billionaire, that I would have the restraint that Jobs has. I'm sure it will be absolute...

Actual v. Estimated Wealth Distribution in America Depressing footnote: Because of their small percentage share of total wealth, both the “...

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will ha...

Once you get over the fact that they're supposed to be father and daughter, it's a great duet. She's got pipes, I'm just sa...

It can be counterintuitive . A CEO creates politics by encouraging and sometimes incenting political behavior—often accidentally. For a very...

Paging Skynet . . . .

Thanks, Merlin Mann .

I spent way too much time on this Senior Year.

Apparently on account of damage from the gloves they wear. I don't care -- I'd still totally do it.

“He that can have patience, can have what he will.” Benjamin Franklin Other excellent quotes on patience .

The classic trolley problem , like most other problems, can be complicated by race and politics .

He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero;...

When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, ...

Bigotry and prejudice are not sources of power, they are displays of power. Doctor Jay via TA-NEHISI COATES

This made my palms sweat when I watched it.

If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. From Metafilter .

From The Screwtape Letters via Freakonomics blog . We teach them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronoun—the finely gr...

Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. W...