Career coaching by August 11, 2015 Flashpop/Getty Images Over the years, I’ve asked hundreds of executive students what skills they believe are essential for leaders. “The ability to give tough feedback” comes up frequently. But what exactly is “tough feedback”? The phrase connotes bad news, like…

No Mercy/No Malice If it does, the stock will shed 30%+ in the first year Published inMarker · 5 min read· Jan 22, 2020 -- In 2015, one of my students asked me to invest in his business. He was sourci

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I finished reading The Man Who Solved the Market this past weekend about Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies, and the quant revolution. The book was alright, but the story of Rentech is remarkable, i

It was morning and bright, and Reinhard Grubhofer, depleted and dehydrated, hoisted his body over a crest and rose uneasily. There, from the summit of Mount Everest, he could see everything. How the earth curved gorgeously in all direction; how wisps of clouds sailed beneath his boots. The view—out…

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Posted October 17, 2019 The plan was to drink until the pain over. But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover? —Kanye West, “Dark Fantasy” When you found a company, it tends to get wired into your ner

On Monday of this week the Business Roundtable, an organization which “represents chief executive officers (CEOs) of America’s leading companies,” published a new statement on the purpose of a corpora

Ittetsu Nemoto near his temple, in Gifu prefecture. Japan’s suicide rate is nearly twice that of the United States.Photograph by Pari Dukovic From time to time, Ittetsu Nemoto gets a group of suicidal

If you spend much time out in nature, you know how to recognize the subtle and unsubtle signs of an ecosystem in distress. It could be a forest that’s eerily silent where you should hear birds and ins

Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets Anthony Levandowski, who was a star engineer at Google and Uber specializing in self-driving technologies, with his lawyer Mile

Farhad Manjoo, in the New York Times, ran an experiment on themself: Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times’s Privacy Project asked me whether I’d be interested in having all my digital act

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Many describe Product Hunt as the place to see what's next in tech. Every day startups and makers launch their latest creation on the site, introducing it to the world for the first time. Like everyon

awaldstein Mar 4, 2014 Words to the wise Fred.Bore repeating and repeating again. William Mougayar Mar 4, 2014 I have seen VCs push for pro-rata rights on the overall ownership, not just on the round,

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Craig Newmark is a man of quiet contradiction. Wrapped in a sweater the color of hot chocolate, the 66-year-old founder of Craigslist is painfully self-effacing, yet he started a wildly successful onl

I First Had Lyme Disease in 2010. I Never Really Got Better. The author has spent a decade fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms — and convincing those who don’t believe him that his illness is re

The suggestion that humans will soon set up bustling, long-lasting colonies on Mars is something many of us take for granted. What this lofty vision fails to appreciate, however, are the monumental—if

Welcome to geezer town, junior. While researching my recent article, “Age discrimination and Programming Jobs” , I discovered a 1998 Op-Ed piece from The New York Times that cited some startling stati

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This article is part of an investigation with Underunderstood, a podcast that explores stories the internet missed. You can subscribe to Underunderstood on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you lis

At 3 a.m. on June 10, my brother-in-law Dan and I started walking uphill from the Whitney Portal trailhead. Our goal: the top of California’s 14,494-foot Mount Whitney, three hours north of Los Angele

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It hasn’t been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celebrat

Published inPodfund · 3 min read· May 7, 2019 -- We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of Podfund. Jake Shapiro has written an excellent post outlining our inspiration and vision, so I thoug

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