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Paul Graham: Can you buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. Richard Russell: The Perfect Business and Rich Man, Poor Man

Eric Ries’s Lean startup presentation: slides & podcast. Bret Taylor: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. After the Crash, Stocks May Face Long Road Back: History Suggests There’s No Guarantee of Quick Rebound; Buy and Hold — for Decades?

Building Quake Live: Carmack Speaks Paul Graham: What I’ve learned from Hacker News Joel Spolsky: How Hard Could It Be? How Positive Psychology Can Boost Your Business

Barry Ritholtz: Comparing Bear Markets from 1929 to early 2009. Looks like this market has a few more weeks of decline in it. James Surowiecki: “Nice work if you can get it. Forgetting your investments, if you have a job you are doing ok. James of Heroku: Why Instant Deployment Matters. Deployment takes a lot [...]

Paul Graham: Startup in 13 sentences Interesting Presentations from NANOG45: All links are PDF – Rensys: Internet Captivity & De-peering Menace – Avi Freedman: BGP 102 – Scaling the Network – Steve Gibbard: Network Operations Practices – Howard Kidorf: Current Status of the Submarine Fiber Optics Market – Martin Levy: IPv6 Traffic Levels on Hurricane [...]

Tech Firms Address DRAM Drain Rensys blog: Reckless Driving on the Internet Tom Pinckney: What to do with thousands of cores Diego Doval: what “web 2.0″ really means — and why “web 3.0″ will never come Anand Rajaraman: Academy Awards and the Matthew Effect

Woot!: Marc Andreessen is starting a fund! Is this the future of music monetization?: Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further Eric Ries: Work in Small Batches

Chris Wanstrath of GitHub: On how GitHub got started. Left 4 Dead sees 3000% jump in sales on Steam: numbers during the sale period actually eclipsed the sales during L4Ds launch week Funny: An illustrated TARP

Particletree: How not to pitch to a startup. Facebook Chat: Chat Stability and Scalability Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site’s founding document. Part 1

Marc Andreessen: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet. How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps. Richard Florida: How the Crash Will Reshape America The Doping Dilemma: Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports

Bo Peabody of Tripod: Lucky or Smart Video: Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb at DLD Mohamed El-Erian of PIMCO: Shaking up the Investment Mix

Measurement Lab: Tools for end-user network testing TED 2009: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air Alfie Kohn: For Best Results, Forget the Bonus Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates: Recession? No, It’s a D-process, and It Will Be Long

Eric Ries: Achieving a failure Barron’s on Private Equity: Ka-Boom! Fortune: Richard Perry, hedge fund superstar, hasn’t had a down year in his flagship fund in 14 years.

Peter Norvig: Norvig.com 2008 Logs NYT: Angels Flee From Tech Start-Ups NYT: In Shift, Chinese Spend More Money Overseas James Surowiecki: Hazardous Materials?

Om Malik: By 2012 Koreans Will Get 1Gbps Broadband Connections Michael Idov: I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. The Super Ad Bowl: Two Decades of Players

John Paulson’s Year-End Letter The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, hat tip defmacro