December 2011
1 post
November 2011
4 posts
“What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common...”
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George Monbiot has some stern words for the rich (via birdlord)
Let’s recap that last part for the TLDR crowd: measuring in terms of ability to buy (the time and sweat of) other people, the richest person to live since Jesus is alive today.
(via caffeinated)
CAF Venturesome's Blog: Social investment provides... →
caf-venturesome:
A pioneering tie-up between the country’s longest running social investment fund, CAF Venturesome, and Oxford City Council has provided a new charity with the finance necessary to launch in the current climate of funding cuts. The Council has acted as a guarantor to a £115,000 loan that CAF…
“All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the...”
– Didion (via rickyo)
October 2011
4 posts
Douglas Rushkoff: Think Occupy Wall St. is a... →
I really liked this when i read it… and then forgot about it :)
caffeinated:
Great piece. My favorite part:
Anyone who says he has no idea what these folks are protesting is not being truthful. Whether we agree with them or not, we all know what they are upset about, and we all know that there are investment bankers working on Wall Street getting richer while things for most of the...
September 2011
1 post
““all too often economics of poverty gets mistaken for poor economics.
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– duflo, from poor economics
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
5 posts
Little Wars →
the full title is awesome. this should also be the official title of any book about doing business in corporate land.
bestofwikipedia:
Little Wars is a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers, written by H. G. Wells in 1913. Its full title is Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and...
China stats
its been a while since I did stats, but it was time, and good way to say good bye to beijing.
China Stats
Number of times ive been able to access gmail in the last 4 days: 3
longest time I was able to stay on gmail once I got in: 5 minute
number of people openly napping at their desk at the IBM China office: 7
number of chinese seen NOT posing in grand fashion for a photograph: 0
number of women...
Doing Business in China
At the IBM Office, Beijing
During intros
American Sales Guy, Asia Rep for IBM, hands around his business cards that have both english and chinese.
China Sales Rep Lady: “ooh you have a chinese business card!”
American Sales Guy: “Yah ive worked in Asia for ever, I have ones in Japanese and a few other languages” (very proud)
China Sales Rep Lady: “Next time, you...
April 2011
4 posts
avoid mistake to “project high growth rate while undervaluing reinvestment” http://on.fb.me/dGTbKh #sofinance #socent
“Theres lots talk in the social finance…we need less talk and more deals…” Paul, Venturesome on moving from theory to action #skollwf
where are the exits for Social VC that make traditional VC go? Venturesome says “smart governement intervention” #skollwf #oxfordjam
RT @GuardianSocEnt: @OxfordJam @SEIreland @geets @SkollCentre I’ve quoted you in my story, check it out: http://sfy.co/3nd
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
6 posts
how is it that corporate environments seem to optomize in complete demotivation? im at the ibm mobility office and find myself desparately searching for any internet diversion from my really difficult task of resetting my intranet password, which is set to automatically send to my lotus notes account which is not activated because id need my intranet password.
shoot me.
seriously.
since this is just a subset of white people,... →
January 2011
7 posts
3 tags
back in the bay
it took leaving to appreciate just how tech centric the bay/sf is.. two things i noticed especially in intense apt hunting…
1) groupon is a social phenomenon here. it was assumed that everyone subscribes to it and i had 3 separate conversations about the day’s groupon (zip car)
2) walking past 16th & Valencia, i overhead the following empassioned claim “at the end of the...
December 2010
3 posts
ive started viewing all business decisions through a #madmen lens. time to stop? she wonders as she queues up another episode…
4Chan taking down mastercard makes me want to re-watch #hackers #wikileaks
Watchseankeane:
San Francisco loved the 2010 Giants because they had something for every part of the city.
(Recorded at the Punch Line, 11/21/10)
heart you, sean keane :)
November 2010
24 posts
Jack Sim of world toilet organization on #marketing “I hoped if we were #WTO the other WTO sue us and the media would come” #emerge10
“try it. Jut get up and say instead of wheatabix I’m having a johnny walker on the rocks” tim Schmidt again, #emerge10 looking @munkee_bizez
The magic happens when you meet the people you aren’t suppose to meet - Tim Schmidt of Eden project #emerge10
Bunker Roy talking about amassing the rural intellect and making puppets out of recycled world bank reports at #barefootcollege. #emerge10
Looking forward to the official launch of #emergesocialventurelab check it out: www.theemergelab.com
feeling envious of everyones thanksgiving food hangovers. #gobblegobble
at said business school, getting excited for #emerge10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOTtVkFk2E i love you #grover
