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Economics
hailey-macarthur

Outsourcing Birthdays and Flirting

The above video is a video I purchased from a guy in England that I have never met. I found him on a website that is a favorite of mine, Fiverr. Fiverr is a marketplace where people list jobs they are willing to do for $5. The ...
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Music
alex clare

What I’m Listening To May 18 2012 Edition

I have thousands of songs in my iTunes and across various cloud music services, but the last week I have been jamming to a small set of songs on repeat. The first one I am posting is Too Close, but Alex Clare. I had not really ...
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Music
nightcall

Kavinsky – NightCall

Bad ass song, Nightcall, by French electro house artist Kavinsky.If it is reminiscient of Daft Punk it’s because it was produced by one of them. On the vocals are Brazilian singer of CSS, Lovefoxx. It may be familiar to y...
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Startups
facebook cash

Over 1000 Millionaires To Be Created By Facebook IPO

With Facebook set to IPO on May 18th and expected to raise over 10 Billion in case, somewhere around 1000 Millionares will be created out of Facebook employees. Pretty ridiclous, but pretty cool. I hope they use their money to ...
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NYC
bucket list

NYC Bucket List

I found this list on Meta Filter and have co-opted it and plan to update and edit it as I go…Have any additions or subtractions? Let me know in the comments. -Eric Go to the Top of the Rock at sunset - Go to Times Square ...
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Quotes
kerouak

Writing Tips From Great Writers

Jack Kerouack’s 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life: These were apparently posted on the wall in the hotel of Allen Ginsberg a year before the poem “Howl” was written. Scribbled secret notebooks, and ...
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influence-turkey

Influence

This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books, and a classic on persuasion,  Influence by Robert Cialdini. The idea that underlays the entire book is that humans have certain evolutionary triggers that can be activated. The...
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tUnE-yArDs

Tiny tUnE-yArDs Desk Concert

tUnE-yArDs (really annoying to spell out) is a bad ass band and while I don’t have much time to write about them right now, it is dumb to write about music anyway. Music should really be listened to, preferably live, but ...
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Notebook
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy Q&A

Words That Make You Sound Smart

I just stumbled across this list in one of my old notebooks from circa 2005. I think many of these were SAT related or were gathered around that time. My plan was to just memorize some sophisticated sounding words and integra...
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Entrepreneurship
steam ship engine

Story of the Broken Steamship Engine

here is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the engineer’s description of the problems and asking a few questions, he went to the...
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