The Daily Entrepreneur: Getting Fired and Technical Poverty

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-07-20 23:21:00 UTC
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Laid Off? It's Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry: A piece in Wired suggesting that there is too much grabbing hold of the jobs that exist in the tech industry, and a suggestion that being fired can be a new opportunity.

Didn't we try that in 1938? Why technical poverty fixes fall short: William Easterly writes another important and provocative post suggesting that the solutions to poverty will never be just technical solutions.

90 Foundations That Tweet: From Philanthropy 411, an awesome list of the philanthropic foundations on Twitter.

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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