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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 of time.

Chris Campbell of Particle Tree: The importance of writing well.

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 Electric’s backbone

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