"If you're going to make a mailing list, at least make it a self-aware one."

— Me, like a month ago, when I first set this mailing list up.

Starting.

The purpose of this list is: To be useful. To tell you about things that matter.

So.

Pathing.

• Brad Feld: "I Invest in CEOs Who Are Learning Machines." Yes please.
• John Foreman: "Defending PowerPoint Against Tufte." This is excellent, though I might nitpick a few of the details (I don't like slides.)
• Marc Andreessen: "The only thing that matters." On market size. Worth noting that Andreessen is specifically interested in really big companies.
• Mark Suster: "How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?" This is better than it sounds.
• Danny Crichton: "Disappearing Ladders." On the atraditional career path.
• Chris Dixon: "The next big thing will start out looking like a toy." Old but good startup advice.
• The Wikipedia page for "Rubber duck debugging." Plain words, man.
• Derek Sivers: "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution." A good theory of the value of work.
• Matthew Hutson/The New Yorker: "The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing CEO." I'm glad that this doesn't psychoanalyze this issue; it's really a behavioral econ piece.