Rate Your Inner Entrepreneur

Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the business school at the University of Virginia, presents a great argument about the thing that differentiates an entrepreneur. He narrows it down to the entrepreneur's ability to think effectually versus causally. I thought I would share this because I love the theory and it helped me in evaluating my own inner entrepreneur ;)

Social Enterprise, De-mystified and Evaluated

I believe it was Warren Buffet who said that innovation is applying the school of thought from one field or industry, on another industry.... And one great example of this in the past decade has been the application of more rigorous measurement of bottom-line results in philanthropy, to produce the school of practice now known as social enterprise.

Foodie To-Do List

For the overwhelming amount of good eating, small business, and creative community enterprising happening in the Bay Area, I always have a running list of the random places people have recommended and I need to experience before ever leaving the Bay. Somehow the list never gets any shorter-- as I check one off, I seem to have two to add. This list is mostly devoted to food, with a few random others thrown in.

Last Lecture, First Casual Carpool Prophet, and the Idea of Full Circle

In the spring of 2005, as a senior in college with a diploma within grasp in less than two months and thirsty for wisdom wherever I could get it, I wandered into Professor Harry Segal's "Last Lecture" one Monday night in Goldwin Smith Hall.

The Dark Knight and the New (Old) America

In the past several years post-9/11, the values of our country-- freedom, opportunity, justice, mercy-- almost seemed to be turning obsolete. A variety of pressures seemed to be saying the ideals of our country were trite, naive, nonrelevant, or had to be sacrificed, in times of terror, war, or economic downturn. But we elected to the presidency a candidate who stands for those values, and with the inauguration just days away it feels like the original values of our country are being reignited and reaffirmed. At least for this moment, however long it may last, it's proud to be American again. The Styles section of The New York Times has declared that irony is out, and hope is in.