The evidence shows that decriminalization actually works.

Roger Cohen is a poet-columnist…this column about life and death, past and future, in incredibly powerful.

A fun blog post that Erica wrote about an IM chat we had about uncertainty.

Something to keep in mind as we try to grow Cheezburger.

…all these words are about one thing: there’s a fight between closed systems and open systems going on right now, just like there was between Pointcast and Blackbird and AOL one one side in the 1990s and the Web on the other. We know now that the Web won. Will it win again?

Awesome! The Digg/Reddit/HackerNews for Lean Startups

The author is right…there could really be a better name for "Lean Startups".

A good article, but really not about Lean Startups…it's about "cheap startups".

A good article, but really not about Lean Startups…it's about "cheap startups".

Some excellent examples about how to incrementally work into a solution that actually solve customer problems, as opposed to designing a solution that nobody actually wants.

What I like about this presentation is how it illustrates the different aspects of startups that four key voices in the startup community–Blank, Ries, McClure and Ells–speak about. You will still need to learn about their arguments, but it places them each in a broader framerwork.