Steven Johnson articulates  my primary frustration when reading e-books: the inability to skim. It’s a funny thing with print vs. ebooks; the digital age is supposed to be all about attention deficit disorder and hypertextual distractions, but ebooks lock you into reading them in a linear fashion more than print books do. MORE >>

By Marsha Friedman, CEO of EMSI Public Relations and author of “ Celebritize Yourself ” We recently lost a legend, boxing coach and trainer Angelo Dundee, the cornerman for world heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali. m a huge fan of world championship boxing – and boxing doesn’t get huger than Ali! Hello!? Ali and Leonard needed Coach Dundee. MORE >>

From Jonah Lehrer,  Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work  (via  Stowe Boyd ): Building 20 [a scene of incredible innovation at MIT] and brainstorming came into being at almost exactly the same time. Among M.I.T. people, it was referred to as “the magical incubator.”. All these errant discussions add up. startups MORE >>

How I view and interact with money has evolved through several distinct stages. I'm explicitly trying to not make value judgments on these perceptions, but merely just relate them. Windfall spending The fist stage I remember was through middle school. My parents would give me $50 for making straight As in school. Do I have enough for this weekend? MORE >>

Was thinking about this laying in bed last night. The things we should never think twice about spending investing money on. Mainly because they make us and life better and they build on our entrepreneurial foundations. Here’s my top 10 list. Books. Clothing. Education. Insurance. Medicine. Health Care. Car maintenance. Healthy Food. MORE >>