I watched Paul Graham’s talk Be Good last week, and I really enjoyed it. It’s always nice to see benevolence rewarded. It’s also had me thinking about my old school and its success– Ron was always completely focussed on what was best for the kids. “If the education is great, the business [...]

Over the last month, I’ve really noticed Scribd taking off. It seems like it’s just about got the critical mass it takes to go big time. To the right is a map comparing its traffic with Reddit’s [1].
Today, I found an old George Orwell essay about the way advances in weaponry have tilted [...]

I recently found the following question and answer session between Warren Buffet and a group of MBA students on Kempton’s blog. Obviously, as a value investor, I pay close attention to what the “Oracle of Omaha” has to say. What impressed me most about this video, though, was Buffet’s personal philosophy. He’s [...]

Have you ever tried to write a program that outputs itself when you run it? While I was eating at Wahoo’s Fish Tacos with Mike and Matt a couple of weeks ago, Matt brought up the topic. Being the guy that he is, he whipped out a napkin and proceeded to write an [...]