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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

socalTECH

I was trying to figure out how to access the public, provide information, and educate them about addiction. I asked him if he wouldn't mind sitting down with me, and he helped me develop the business model, and suggested that I work with some offshore developers on automating the system.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely. And who cares, right? in their 20′s. What could be more capitalist than that?

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. We are completely transparent on what we are doing, we try to educate them on what is really going on behind the scenes, and because of that they really love us.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. .

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American Immigration: The Invisible Wall to Innovation

Tech Zulu Event

Strict boundaries and a marathon of hoops to jump through just to submit your documentation as an immigrant, are resulting in less American educated immigrants staying to pursue the process, rather opting to return to their home countries. Take the U.S. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

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It’s not always the obvious sources of education that shape you the most. That india isn’t just a headline about call centers, computing programming and offshoring. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Fight monoculture.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

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Luckily many, not all, tech employees in Silicon Valley earn good wages as a result of educations from top schools that allowed them access to this talent market. So politicians work with wealthy people to create laws that make it easy to shield wealth and income from taxes by moving money offshore. I still had privilege.

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