May 4, 2010

Brain Candy

Seth Godin breaks down the elements of success for magicians, business at large

I wonder if this AMEX initiative will encourage incremental volunteerism or just reward those already doing good work pro bono. Even if it does increase the overall level of volunteerism, are those activities the ones we would want to incentivize? i.e., Do we really want people coming out to dole out soup at $5/hour? Wouldn't we rather utilize those funds to invest in social entreprenuer organizations that are scalable?

The economics of fashion

While we were playing Monopoly, the Russians were playing...

Adam Savage's (from Mythbusters) excellent speech to the Harvard Humanist Society