The Weekend Entrepreneur: Freelancers and Commencement Speeches

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-06-07 13:06:00 UTC
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Blessed Unrest author Paul Hawken

The Self-Employed Depression: The New York Times Magazine takes a really interesting look at how the poor economy is impacting freelance entrepreneurs.

Social Capital Gains: Jon Gosier writes his first post as a TED Fellow and provides some awesome background on just how hard it is for skilled talent in East Africa to find compelling local work.

A Commencement Speech of Terror and Beauty: Change.org's Education blogger Clay adds some important critical commentary to one of the best commencement speech's I've ever read, written by Paul Hawken.

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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