Kris's collection of random items found while RSSing, Google Reading or FFFFounding, it may not always be attributed, but i use it as a scrapbook of stuff that excites me.

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“ Gargamel. Gargamel isn’t really a supervillain — just an evil old dude with the ability to create magic potions. He wants to destroy the Smurfs because he thinks he knows how to run a better Smurf society. Sound familiar? It’s the economic equivalent of financial engineering. Private equity funds are textbook examples: their magic potions never seem to work very well. Though the companies they run may benefit in the near-term, eventually, they run iconic companies into the ground.
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Is Your Business Useless? - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

I think pop culture has wrecked business writing