Sites for Learning

This one is great for everything from home schooling to college. http://www.khanacademy.org

i'm going to try keeping up with the Algorithms class starting June 11th. - https://www.coursera.org

And for the experienced script writer or coder, Code Golf - http://codegolf.stackexchange.com

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tiny buddha - tips to balanace work/life...

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/6-tips-work-life-balance-for-people-with-big-dreams-2/

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Thank you Mr. Jobs.

Image by Jonathan
MakLike the rest of the world I am deeply saddened by the loss of life that was Steve Jobs. While not a shock considering his health issues, it is very sad for many reasons that hit close to home for me. He has children and wife that are still alive …

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learning about business models and customer development

I still need to read through this again but am very impressed so far.
This businessmodelalchemist.com article talks about creating and vetting a business model using proven successful methods in the entrepreneurial context.

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New Goal: Learn new shit!

I stumbled across this recent posting by one of the etsy.com engineers. I am like "WOW!". I am jumping on the web 3.0 bandwagon.
Gotta learn me some nodeJS, graphite, and of course more python, and some Django for good measure.

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Words of Wisdom from Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora...

I listened to this podcast tonight on the way home. Very inspiring. these ETL talks always seem to get my mental juices flowing. Makes me miss working with Luke Lonergan and Scott Yara back at Greenplum.
A Pandora's Box of Start-up Expertise.

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podcast on How Ideas Take Flight

A great podcast on How Ideas Take Flight by Jennifer Aaker at Stanford.

I found it really interesting that she talks a lot about happiness and what we all find happiness to be.

Teenagers idea of happiness is different from someone in their 20's or 30's or 40's. We have …

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