Start the drum rolls.

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Thaaaaaat's right, those degrees.

Quoted: Many young people on the fast track to fat paydays in the financial industry are choosing to forgo M.B.A. programs.

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An interesting way to look at it.

Quoted: Did the YouTube deal pay for itself? At least for one week it did.

MS has a small chance to hit the 10m units shipped target by the time of PS3 launch (assuming the PS3 launch date doesn't change, but that would never happen).

I wish I mattered enough to make the list of people who don't matter :(

Quoted: SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - In putting together The 50 Who Matter Now, we at Business 2.0 Magazine had to make some hard decisions about who we included and who we left out.

Really enjoyed this. It's a good general interest book, but for a baseball fan it's great (particularly a fan who's favorite team is in the AL West). Reading the book in 2006 is especially interesting, since a number of the player names cited are starting to make their way into the league (Kazmir, Fielder, Swisher, Youkilis, ...). Recommended.

Quoted: What the laggards have failed to grasp is that what matters most today is not a company's competitive advantage at a point in time, but ...

Briliant idea -- build an idea market for your company, enabling a structured approach to weighting ideas generated "from the trenches". Some good examples of the idea working are cited here.

Quoted: A Linux-style approach taps masses of people for inspiration.