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Here’s something they don’t teach at school: the simplest way to become a critical thinker is to take a consensus view and ask what it would take for it be false. Put another way, if you’d like to be a better thinker form a habit of asking,
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Photo by Adeolu Eletu Preface Venture capital (“VC”) found me through entrepreneurship. In fact I knew nothing of it until I came across the blogs of early-stage investors Fred Wilson and Paul Graham. At that time, I was reading everything I could find on startups and technology. I had a
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This is a sample of a monthly book recommendation newsletter I send to almost 200 readers each month. You can sign up for it here. One of the best life changes I’ve had this year is fixing my sleep. I now routinely sleep around 7 hours a night and
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Available on Netflix If you’re a startup founder, artist, investor, or anyone working on something hard, you’ve got to watch the HBO/Netflix documentary about Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre. It’s not just about the music business either. The 4-part series is an extended biopic about two
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Some say privacy is dead. For a while, I thought so too. In an age where more than 90% of all the world’s data was created in the last 2 years and where we are increasingly and more easily sharing lots about ourselves and friends, the easy thing to
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A few days ago I watched the documentary Iverson. It’s about the life of the basketball player Allen Iverson. He was a favourite ball player in my teens, a period when I used to play the sport many times a week. Iverson was small for a NBA player. At
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I was listening to an episode of the Freakonomics podcast series “The Secret Life of a CEO” and I found this segment with David Rubeinsten, the billionaire co-founder of the private equity fund Carlyle Group, timely: RUBENSTEIN: “My biggest concern is I’m now 68 years old, and actuarial tables
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It’s taken a while but I’ve decided to return to more frequent blogging. I’ve held back often, going several months without writing anything due to fear of not having much insight to offer. I also deleted a bunch of blog posts I published many years ago, since
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This is a sample chapter taken from my career skills book Graduate Entrepreneurship. You can purchase a copy on Amazon or Book Depository. Please refer to the book for references and sources of key statistics and data. Image Source Myth 1: You need a great idea Everyone has a business
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This post originally appeared at the MBA Blog of Said Business School. In Trinity Term one of my favourite MBA electives was the Nature of the Corporation. In this course we asked, “what’s the purpose of a corporation?”, “do companies need to have a clear purpose?”, “how many corporations
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We give advice all the time. And when we’re not busy dishing out our very own seemingly sweet words of wisdom, we search for it in gurus, friends, family, books, and religion. Advice-giving is not just a multi-billion dollar business either. It’s impact permeates everything from simple day-to-day
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In 1942 Howard Hughes set out to build the world’s largest aircraft, the Hughes H-4 Hercules. With a wingspan close to 100 meters and a weight of 180,000 kilograms, it was questionable whether the gigantic bird would ever take off. The Hughes H-4 Hercules – 2 Nov 1947 What’