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Long-term, jobs can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. No quick fix.

Mongolia is like baking a cake. All the ingredients are on the table. You've got everything you need to build a modern, prosperous economy. The only thing that's missing is the political leadership to make the tough decisions.

This kind of love -- of life, of wonder -- cannot be taught in business school. It has to be felt. It has to be given sanctuary away from the noise and relentless assault of information. And then it has to be nurtured. The misfit has a higher calling: to bring the unmanifest into being, no matter who is saying what.

Content creation is for suckers. The real money and power have always been in aggregation. The recent struggles of the previously unassailable giants can be attributed to diminished effectiveness of old methods of aggregation.

Competitors will invest in marketing, and the combined marketing efforts of a number of competitors will accelerate the development of a nascent market. It is very hard to build a market all alone. Also, when a large company enters a market, it validates the market in the minds of many who had not been paying attention to it before.

Reading news online feels like flying Economy. Loud distracting banners, cheap stock picture material, sloppy typography, a lot of useless comment noise, machine generated reading tips, no human service, and a claustrophobic information design make the reading experience a torture.

Letter to Amazon's shareholders detailing the nature of investments technology infrastructure. Favorite tidbit, personally, is about how technologies are implemented almost exclusively as services, because it "reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system."

The secret of success turns out to be so incredibly simple: Work your ass off.

Provoke emotional reactions instead of informing. Take with a grain of salt, but remember that traffic means ads, ads mean money, and money is like life-giving blood to any business.

Not paying is always simple.