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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

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The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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And I don’t want you all who are different from me to be bothered with my eclectic taste in films (I hate Hollywood blockbusters and I drag my wife to foreign films of shepherd herders in Iran or EVERY Mike Leigh film) or my poor taste in music.

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Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation

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While Iran & Russia are moving to deny gay people’s existents or diminish their rights we live in a country that accepts them as the loving parents and people that they are. One of their mommy’s best friends is a gay man with three children who have Spina Bifida – two in wheelchairs.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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But an equally obvious case is BitCoin where people who live in Iran, Syria or Libya may rather put their money into non-governmental units (even knowing the risks) than to trust their local governmental leaders to protect their assets from inflation or seizure.

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

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Social networks are like Iran. But 22 year olds might like to be able to make their views on the world known without having it follow them around for the next 40 years. It’s scary. You can say anything you want, but in the morning there will be consequences.” ” It hit me. He’s right. PSEUDONYMITY.

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How the Hell do I Prioritize Work, Blog & Find Balance?

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Then I checked the NY Times and realized this that the US has passed an historic nuclear deal with Iran and since for me Twitter is a real-time news platform I figured I would Tweet what I was thinking. Iran deal reached. When I was done I had to send an email to Adam Lezack that was urgent and due by the morning. People correct you.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. That includes me.