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Paul Graham Essays

Much of the advice that Graham does eventually dispense to the founders in the audience is interesting, however. Graham talks, for example, about his views on competition, which can essentially be boiled down to the idea that companies fail owing to poor execution, not because of me-too startups. In fact, says Graham, though companies worry about […]

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Dee Ward Hock

Searching for the answers required trying to master four ways of looking at things: As they were, as they are, as they might become, and as they ought to be.

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Creativity, innovative education, Learn, Meet

Creativity is as important as literacy

Where’s the innovation in our education system? I had a question posed by one of my readers yesterday about innovation in education. She contends that our public schools have become “test factories powered by child labour where there is only one correct answer for each question”. Many parents I know have expressed frustration at our […]

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Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (b. Aug. 27, 1979) studied computer science at Princeton University and interactive art at Fabrica. His multimedia projects combine data visualization, documentary, performance, photography, storytelling, ritual, and other tools and technologies. His work has been exhibited at Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the CAFA Museum of Contemporary Art in Beijing, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, […]

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