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LinkedIn Mixes Old Media And New

While I am not old by any stretch of the imagination, I definitely fall on the "I did not grow up with the internet" side of the ledger. All that means is that I have needed to adapt how I do business to incorporate blogging and social media among other "unnatural" acts. In fact, for a good portion of my career I had to depend on newspapers for "up-to-date" business information and I have grown fond of several sources that have themselves had to adapt to the internet economy.

Collapsed Civilizations and Startup Risks

Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, provides a simple framework of five forces that lead to collapse: environmental damage and population growth, climate change, hostile neighbors, weakened trade partners and failure to solve societal problems.  I thought I would mash it up with the Techcrunch Deadpool: