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Just Manic Enough - Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- But this thought exercise hints at a truth: a thin line separates the temperament of a promising entrepreneur from a person who could use, as they say in psychiatry, a little help.
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Corner Office - C.E.O. of FindTheBest.com on Job Interviews - Interview - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- A. The local school down the street had a weak wrestling program. So I’d go down there and burn off some steam from work, and thought it’d be good to help kids. It takes real management and leadership skills to get a 17-year-old to do anything.
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Haitians Cry in Letters - ‘Please — Do Something!’ - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- In the last couple of weeks, thousands of displaced Haitians have similarly vented their concerns, depositing impassioned pleas for help in new suggestion boxes at a hundred camps throughout the disaster zone. Taken together, the letters form a collective cri de coeur from a population that has felt increasingly impotent and ignored.
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Older Unemployed Struggle to Rejoin the Work Force - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Patricia Reid is not in her 70s, an age when many Americans continue to work. She is not even in her 60s. She is just 57.
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Guernica / Muslim Grrrls - Annotated
- After successfully employing Islamic law in the U.S. court system, our writer realizes that Sharia and feminism aren’t always mutually exclusive.
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Making It Big In Software: Google's Peter Norvig -- Software Careers -- InformationWeek
Q. What words of wisdom or caution do you have for people entering the field?
A. To paraphrase my friends at Y-Combinator, "Make something people want, and have some guts." Life is too short to waste it on doing something that is not important. If you're in this field, you have the privilege of getting paid well to do interesting work with a variety of choices; you have the responsibility to choose wisely.
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