Marc Andreessen on Charles Munger’s The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment - Part I

Marc Andreessen starts another series of commentary, always through an entrepreneur’s eye, this time on Warren Buffet’s co-billionaire Berkshire Hathaway partner Charles Munger’s The Psychology of Entrepreneural Misjudgment.
This part covers 6 of 25 biases namely

Reward and Punishment Superresponse Tendency. “Human response to incentives is indeed a huge behavioral motivator, and I think Mr. Munger is [...]

On music and newspapers

The current music business is falling apart, notes Seth Godin. And Seth suggests embracing an internet community strategy, even mentioning social network sites like Ning.
The current newspaper business is falling apart, notes Marc Andreessen. Marc tracks this business like no other. Needless to say, Marc is a co-founder of Ning.
There are huge opportunities for technologists [...]

Dave Winer wins the LongNow bet: it’s Blog over NYT

The LongNow Foundation announced the winner of the Long Bet that was placed in 2002 between Dave Winer (predictor) and Martin Nisenholtz of NYT (challenger) with the following prediction:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web [...]