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		<title>&#8220;Adler smoothie&#8221; (green smoothie recipe)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 18:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Venture capital goes &#8216;public&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/venture-capital-goes-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Developments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a blog post about crowdfunding (&#8216;Kickstarter capitalism&#8216;). In that post I largely reflected the perceptions of a typical &#8216;backer&#8217; (or, one might say, &#8216;investor&#8217;) in crowdfunded initiatives &#8211; that is, someone like me. I&#8217;ve become enthused about how crowdfunding can help bring new creative ideas to life, when otherwise they might never [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2666&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter capitalism</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/kickstarter-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kickstarter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[price discrimination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rockethub]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extract of screenshot from Kickstarter project &#8220;CST-01: The World&#8217;s Thinnest Watch&#8221; by Central Standard Timing [screenshot taken on January 10, 2013] &#8216;Crowdfunding&#8216; (or crowdsourced funding) isn’t new, but it took a leap forward in 2012 as people became more familiar with websites like Kickstarter (possibly the most well known crowdfunding site), Indiegogo, Pozible, Rockethub, Sponsume, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2642&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Links to &#8220;Everything is a remix&#8221;, by Kirby Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/links-to-everything-is-a-remix-by-kirby-ferguson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while I&#8217;ve been following Kirby Ferguson&#8217;s excellent short, 4-part series &#8220;Everything is a remix&#8220;. The first part (above) is over two years old now; the last part was completed earlier this year (Kirby&#8217;s now moved onto other topics, including &#8220;This is not a conspiracy theory&#8220;). &#8220;Everything is a remix&#8221; is beautifully curated/produced, and I wanted [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2577&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be Elite</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/to-be-elite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC Micro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Braben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elite 4]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas 1984 &#8211; I received a present from my parents, &#8216;Elite&#8216;, a &#8216;space simulation&#8217; computer game for my BBC Micro &#8216;B&#8217; (cassette version, back in the day when games would take several minutes to load, accompanied by an audible screeching noise &#8230;). The launch of Elite was for the computer games sector, a defining moment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2614&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs, RIP</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/steve-jobs-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Ive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jony ive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lisa brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality distortion field]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stanford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of YouTube/StanfordUniversity  Of course, most people will see this post as coming very late. More than a year late. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011. He was, of course, known for his leadership of Apple, towards becoming the most valuable company in the world, and the drive behind numerous innovative products (iPod, iPhone, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2594&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching Inside Myself (learning from Google employees&#8217; not-so-secret secret)</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/searching-inside-myself-learning-from-google-employees-not-so-secret-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership and personal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chade-Meng Tan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of &#8216;Search Inside Yourself&#8217;, by Chade-Meng Tan (book) The book&#8217;s full title is &#8216;Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)&#8216;. Which is sometimes shortened to just &#8216;SIY&#8216;. Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) works for Google, where his official job title is &#8220;Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny)&#8221; (Meng [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2562&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going on? [July 2012]</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/whats-going-on-15-july-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[higgs boson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some things that I&#8217;m reading, following, or that simply &#8216;resonate&#8217; with me right now: Quora (a social &#8216;Question and Answer&#8217; platform) The &#8216;Higgs Boson&#8217; discovery More on these via the link below. I&#8217;ll probably post a few more of these, as an abbreviated blog post alternative (and instead a &#8216;full&#8217; post for more specific topics [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2542&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jolly Pilgrim; jolly good read</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/jolly-pilgrim-jolly-good-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 09:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image courtesy of thejollypilgrim.org I&#8217;m just off the back of finishing reading &#8217;The Jolly Pilgrim&#8217;, by Peter Baker, and since I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading it, I thought I&#8217;d write a short review of it, and share some reflections. The book is a mixture of travel diary / journal / writings (London, Istanbul, Australia, India, Latin America, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2496&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial downturns, plane crashes, and train wrecks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image &#8220;Panic of 1873 bank run&#8221;, Illus. in: Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated Newspaper, 1873 Oct. 4, p. 67. &#8211; see Wikipedia for further details Tim Harford, wrote a great blog post today, &#8220;Time to bring in the crash investigators&#8221;, which opened as follows: The NTSB is capable of providing a clear and authoritative narrative, explanations and conclusions [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7401708&#038;post=2476&#038;subd=matthewbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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