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I'm entrepreneur, author and investor living in Silcon valley. You can also find me at:
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Yesterday I listened to T. Boone Pickens expound on his energy plan for America at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco at a meeting of the CommonWealth club. He’s a great speaker and very funny. His delivery somewhat reminds of my professor, Dr. Suppes at Stanford, another distinguished Oklahoman. But while [...] I discovered an interesting startup called upmo. They are selling a set of tools to help you systematically improve the quality of your networking. Right now it’s in a free public beta; later on their model is to sell it to university alumni organizations, companies, etc., who would like to offer it as a service to [...] I’ve beenr really inspired by Leo BaBauta’s blog Zen Habits (http://zenhabits.net) lately. There’s a handful of books and the like that have moved me over the years, such as Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path, that have profoundly moved me. Leo’s writings are also having a big impact on [...] I find it’s always important to reach out to a broad set of outside influences to keep your mind fresh, alert and nimble. Really your mind is like any other part of your body. You have to give it regular workouts so it gets strong and fast with plenty of endurance. You also have to avoid [...] I’ve been reading in some blogs about the death of TV. It’s happening in our house. Amazingly, my daughter never asks to use our tv sets. How could that be, a teenager who doesn’t watch tv? Ah, but she does watch all of her favorite shows – on her laptop in the comfort of her [...] I’ve been reading a true classic of inspirational literature, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Although written half a century ago, it’s basic message is completely timeless. He tells us that if we want to accomplish something, we have to follow a very simple process: Be very clear and explicit about what we want |
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