Business

Fast Company has a great audio excerpt from a Steve Jobs interview where he discusses Pixar and running a business like a marathon.

37signals founder and CEO Jason Fried’s TEDxMidwest talk discusses why the office is ineffective in fostering productivity and how managers and meetings are the real problems. He offers three solutions to a more productive work environment, but you have to watch the video yourself to learn what they are.

Inspiring movie about how people turn getting laid off (lemons) into businesses of passion (lemonade). Favorite quote: Sometimes there’s things you love to do that you forget about, so put your energy in the things you love. Put all the energy you can into those things and see what happens.

I got a “C” in my globalization class in college. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about the subject matter. It was my last class, and I was ready to just be finished. “The Story of Stuff” is an creative look at the economics of manufacturing, consumption, globalization and sustainability as an alternative. Watch the [...]