Thursday, November 29, 2007

My Culinary Internship

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Culinary Internship One of the perks at Google is that if you like the food enough (and trust me, you will!), you can volunteer for a Culina...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Review: The Trouble with Islam Today

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I met Irshard Manji when she visited Google to give a talk. She seemed to be a very brave woman with a major goal, which is to bring about a...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Review: Schulz and Peanuts

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I will confess to being a far bigger fan of Bill Waterson than I am of Charles Schulz, but any understanding of comic strip history will ha...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

My thanksgiving present

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I felt a little funny on Sunday morning right after posting my last entry. I went for a hike anyway, but found my energy low. That afternoon...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Review: Bicycling and The Law

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Bob Mionske is a cycling lawyer, and writes the Legally Speaking column for VeloNews . In addition to being a collection of all the column...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Obama Visits Google

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I got a chance to see senator Obama first hand today when he visited Google to give a speech and take questions from Eric Schmidt and other ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Review: Argonautika

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Lisa and I visited the Berkeley Rep on Saturday to see Mary Zimmerman's Argonautika. The story is the well-trod story of Jason and the A...

Review: The Age of Turbulence

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Alan Greenspan is perhaps the last of a dying breed, the reality-based Republican. As chairman of the Federal Reserve, he presided over the ...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

You cannot outsource financial work part II

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A few days ago, I was talking to someone at work, and he said, "I'm going to have to fire my financial adviser. I started working w...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Warren Buffett Interview

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I love it. He challenges anyone in the Forbes 400 to see if they pay higher taxes than their receptionist (I bet there'll be an exceptio...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Outsourced: The Movie

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This is the third movie I've seen at Google as part of a special engagement...The previous two being King of Kong , and the other A Mome...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Greg Mankiw keeps digging his hole

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As Krugman pointed out yesterday , I hope Republican candidates parrot Mankiw. When someone like me (always had health insurance, in good ge...
Monday, November 05, 2007

A must read for would-be investors

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The way I see it, there are at least seven traits great investors share that are true sources of advantage because they can't be learned...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Steve Levy Reports on the APM World Tour

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This sort of enterprise was exactly what Google was hoping for when it began the APM program five years ago. Earlier attempts to hire vetera...

Dead iPod

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My ipod, after about 3 years, has died with a clicking noise. MTBF for a hard drive is about 5 years, but my guess is that portable applicat...
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Why Financial Planning is Important

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In 1995, I was working at Pure Software when the company went public. One of the very early engineers said to me that day, "I've a...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Highly Concentrated Portfolios: A Case Study

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I know a lot of people with concentrated portfolios. Most of these people don't need my advice. The reason, as laid out in this excellen...

John Doerr Visits Google

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I had the pleasure on Thursday of listening to John Doerr talk about global warming when he visited Google. This was a rehash of his TED tal...

Tax planning II

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Hoisted from the comments, Brad Delong style: i was just thinking about your "tail wagging the dog" thing and wondering if that i...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

Farseer Trilogy

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Over the years, these books' have been staring in my face, daring me to actually read them and me always putting them off because well, ...