mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2007 | books, toread, constitution, government
Watching this guy on PBS. He is making sense. The problem, in my opinion, is the reform he suggests is likely a Pandora's box.
Quoted: Levinson's brief text (180 pages, excluding the helpful appendicies), goes beyond the popular depiction to point up those provisions among the six Articles and twenty-seven Amendments whose democratic pedigree are in serious doubt. The Electoral College is probably the best known and most egregious of these. Others, perhaps less glaring, but no less questionable, include distribution of the Senate, life tenure for Supreme Court justices, excessive presidential power, and a half-dozen other dubious provisions. You may agree with some, disagree with others, but all merit second thoughts in light of decades of practical experience.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | google, analytics, todo, toread, metrics, books, technology
Quoted: Finally after 18 months I am excited to announce that the book has been published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc and is now available from Amazon and other
ShareViewed: 16 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2008 | george soros, books, todo, toread, credit crisis, economics
Heard George Soros talking about his new book on NPR this morning.
Quoted: "The idea was that regulators always make mistakes, state interference in the markets just messes things up," Soros says. "And that was a false idea .... Regulators are human and bound to make mistakes, but markets are also human and they are also bound to make mistakes. Instead of markets always being right, they're actually always groping at trying to find out what the facts are. But they never get it right."
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 21 2008 | books, todo, toread, faves, performance, development, web development
Recommended on Seattle Tech Startups.
Quoted: Amazon.com: High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers: Books: Steve Souders by Steve Souders
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 11 2007 | investing, investment club, books, toread
Quoted: This book is great. Not only does Peter Lynch give a run down of how he invests, but he uses a sensible approach while investing. He examines how to analyze a company, its operations, its financial statements and various other important factors when making an investment decision. This book is an important one that I will recommend and keep on my bookshelf for a LONG time.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2007 | books, toread, luck, career
Agreed. Some of my best memories are of events that were unplanned.
Quoted: Have you ever noticed that unplanned events — chance occurrences — more often determine your life and career choices than all the careful planning you do? A chance meeting, a broken appointment, a spontaneous vacation trip, a “fill-in” job, a newly discovered hobby — these are the kinds of experiences — happenstances — that lead to unexpected life directions and career choices.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2007 | books, toread, capitalism, democracy, politics
Recommended by my cousin.
Quoted: In this compelling and important analysis of the triumph of capitalism and the decline of democracy, former labor secretary Reich urges us to rebalance the roles of business and government. Power, he writes, has shifted away from us in our capacities as citizens and toward us as consumers and investors.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2007 | books, management, business, toread
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Quoted: Don't believe the hype. These “classic” books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead.
ShareViewed: 36 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 27 2007 | china, india, books, toread, globalization
Listening to the author on NPR right now.
Quoted: The Wall Street Journal today had a review of this book and said that it navigates a good middle ground between the euphoric optimist view of China and India, and sheer pessimism and negativism.
ShareViewed: 11 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 19 2007 | toread, books, entrepreneurship, startups, marketing
Recommended by Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/book-of-the-w-1.html ):
In a nutshell, Steve proposes that companies need a Customer Development process that complements their Product Development Process. And he lays out exactly what he thinks that Customer Development process should be. This goes directly to the theory of Product/Market Fit that I have discussed on this blog before -- in this book, Steve provides a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit.
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