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Spolsky, Gladwell, the Laffer curve and fruit-based metaphors
I just came across an excellent post from Joel Spolsky on anecdotes disguised as scientific facts: Whether it’s Thomas Friedman, who, it seems, cannot go a whole week without inventing a new...
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Land ahoy! The rise of Iceland’s Pirate Party
Election day in Iceland is an important occasion for many, with 81.4% of the population showing up to vote. The local supermarket had election day cakes for sale. Yesterday was election day. Like many...
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Borgarstjórar fortíðarinnar
Nú þegar sveitastjórnarkosningarnar eru handan við hornið er áhugavert að horfa um öxl og skoða hverjir hafa setið í borgarstjórastólnum, hvenær og hversu lengi. Hingað til hafa borgarstjórarnir verið...
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Why Facebook is a Nordic success story – notes from the Nordic Digital Forum
Brainstorming session at the Nordic Digital Forum. Photo courtesy of @eskeknudsen Mark Zuckerberg builds Facebook from his dorm room and becomes a billionaire. It’s a typical American success story,...
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How the Berlin Wall reminds me of Facebook Messenger
“Ask her!” the receptionist at the Feiniger Gallery in Quedlinburg told us in German, pointing towards a terrified junior colleague who was shaking her head profusely. They thought I wanted them to...
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Icelander Erik Brynjolfsson and the gap beween the rich and poor
Harvard Business Review has an interesting interview (found via Fred Wilson) with rising stars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee from the MIT Sloan School of Management. The first thing an Icelander...
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Iceland’s Pirate Party soars to the top of the polls leading the runner up by...
The only big change in Icelandic politics after the economic crash in 2008 was that voters in the capital, Reykjavík, decided that instead of going for fascism or extreme left-wingers, they’d vote in...
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Women as panelists in tech events
The Founders Forum is one of those clubs that annoys me to no end. Note that the club itself doesn’t annoy me, the fact that I’m not a member annoys me. Your company has to be valued at more than...
View ArticleThis month’s best internet rant
Discovered via A VC.com, the best rant you’ll read on the internet this month is this talk given by Maciej Ceglowski, founder of Pinboard: On Poland vs San Francisco: It struck me as I looked out...
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The “rags to political office” pitch and dirty campaigning
The results from the London Mayoral election are sill be announced later today. A few days ago the above pamphlet dropped in through my letterbox. “The council estate boy who’ll fix the Tory housing...
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