When I was an undergrad, I was fascinated by the fact that so many wealthy people had either dropped out of college or skipped it altogether, and subsequently built amazing technology companies. This list includes Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and many, many others. I wondered if there was perhaps some link [...]
Bill Gates recently said the best college education could soon be available online and for free. And it does seem like we’re getting close to that ideal, doesn’t it? More and more brand-name schools are offering classes online. At the same time, you have this trend of schools putting a lot of their lectures, class [...]
Just a quick congratulations to my friend Ben Lew, who just launched his first iPad app: Interactive Alphabet. It’s designed more for kids, but if you have trouble with some of your letters, you might like it as well I don’t have kids, but after playing with the app, I think it would be something [...]
I read a lot of books. And probably 75% of the time I’m reading a book, I think of someone I’d like to recommend the book to. I used to loan copies of books to people, or even buy them a copy if I thought it was particularly good. But then I got a Kindle, [...]
I saw this great story today about how a North Texas school district may start allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed weapons in the school when classes start later this month. The policy was devised to help prevent school shootings, and those who wish to carry will need to meet the following requirements: have [...]
One of my favorite blogs lately is The Simple Dollar by a guy named Trent Hamm. I was perusing my feed reader yesterday, and one of his latest posts caught my eye: Is College Really Necessary For All High School Graduates? One of my favorite topics is major life decisions (education, marriage, career path, etc) [...]
About a year ago, I started blogging in earnest about personal finance and investment, as well as the occasional post on personal development. In April 2007, I started a series about investing for young adults, which took me a bit longer to complete than originally planned (6 months vs. 1 month). During the process of [...]
Here are my programs at this point, in descending order of preference: Harvard Business School Stanford Graduate School of Business Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania … There are many others that I admire, such as Chicago School of Business, Kellogg (Northwestern), Columbia School of Business, and Sloane (MIT), but I haven’t researched those [...]
I love business and entrepreneurship. I love it so much that I can’t sleep sometimes because I just want to go out and DO something. One of the things I’d like to do is get my MBA. Now, I know that many lifelong entrepreneurs are no fan of the MBA, but for me, there are [...]