The Daily Entrepreneur: Causes, Secret Meetings, and David Foster Wallace

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-05-20 21:35:00 UTC
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Causes Exchange Blog: Facebook Causes launches a new blog to help their millions of members do more.

America's Top Philanthropists Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Global Problems: The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports on the much buzzed about meeting between folks like Buffett, Oprah, and Michael Bloomberg.

David Foster Wallace, In His Own Words: Late author David Foster Wallace gives one of the most profound commencement speeches of all time, at Kenyon College in 2005. The themes include empathy, banality, and finding meaning in experience.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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