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Focus – and strike it rich
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Marketing insight, Media/Tech history, On the road, Videos to Watch
Amazing video from the System Club archive.
What can you learn from this?
Lesson #1: Invest in Facebook when it’s just some kids coding in a rented house in Palo Alto.
But it you can’t do that, then what?…
On learning – and failing to learn – languages (and other hard things)
Some semi-random but entirely practical observations about language learning that teachers never talk about in language class – but should…
1. Two people can speak the same language fluently and still misunderstand each other – massively.
Conversely, two people who …
You can’t win ’em all, but you can always take pride in giving it your all
System grad Nick LaCava’s bid for an Olympic medal ended today.
There were two semifinal races and had Nick’s boat been in the second race, they would have qualified for the final. Instead, they were matched in the first race …
What success really is and where it comes from
I took a trip down to Princeton, NJ last week with my good friend Bettina Mueller to visit with System grad Nick LaCava.
Nick, the co-founder of a business called Chocomize, attended System 2010. He’s also Bettina’s nephew and someone …
How I woke up one day in Guatemala and realized I was a Libertarian
I just got back from three months of traveling in Latin America.
There were a few reasons I made the trip:
1. Latin America is an extremely pleasant place (if you know where to go)
2. It has a dynamic, …