NSA contractor gets more than 5 years for leaking info about Russia hacking attempts (more)

Q&A with Ryan Craig, author of new book on faster, cheaper college alternatives (Alternatives To A College Degree). The investment firm seemed to be betting that, with the right mix of outside help from Silicon Valley-backed companies, colleges and universities could meet the growing demands on them to provide affordable, high-quality education and training to satisfy graduates and employers alike. Six years later, Craig’s doubts about higher education’s ability to step up to that challenge appear to have grown (more)

Karen A: 20 Mental Models for Product Managers (more)

'Too Late to Protect 2018 Elections,' says Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO. The latest read from Alex Stamos bears an appropriately grim title. From "It’s Too Late to Protect the 2018 Elections. But Here’s How the U.S. Can Prepare for 2020," at Lawfare: (more)

Walmart's eBookstore is Launching Today. Walmart is going to be selling ebooks both on its site and in stores. The ebookstore will be located at http://www.walmart.com/ebooks when it goes live, and it will be managed by Kobo and supported via a subdomain on Kobo's website. (more)

Jason Fried: Teaching iteration. I’m often polled for my opinion on the American education (schooling) system. What’s my take? What would I do to fix it? (more)

Alex Moazed: Why GE Digital Failed. The cloud of negative news surrounding the company these days stands in stark contrast to this grand vision. GE has hit a rough patch in the past few months after missing earnings. And John Flannery, the new CEO, has indicated a new set of priorities for the 100-plus-year-old industrial giant. Does this mean that the efforts of GE Digital, the business unit in GE responsible for digital transformation, have failed? Yes, unfortunately, it does. (more)

Bob Walsh has written a Web Start Up Success Guide ISBN:1-4302-1985-8. One chapter includes a David Allen interview.

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Virtual School-s are running into resistance from Teachers Union-s. The same pre-teen who will happily while away hours playing Scrabble with her friends on FaceBook dreads each Thursday afternoon, when she will be forced to laboriously write out a list of spelling words in silence alongside two dozen peers. (more)

A list of people/organizations to be shunned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist (more)

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Ryan Craig: Facebook is going back to college. Talk to a college president or provost about the importance of Marketo, HubSpot, Pardot, Tableau, Adobe and Autodesk for their graduates, and they’re at a loss for how to integrate last-mile training into their degree programs in order prepare students to work on these essential software platforms. (more)

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Venkatesh Rao thinks Entrepreneur-s are the new Labor. (See related Technological Revolutions And Financial Capital - maybe he's talking about changing power relations as a revolution moves through its phases...). (more)

author, (The Monk and the Riddle, Getting to Plan B) VC (more)

Ash Maurya says Lean Startup is a rigorous process for iterating from Plan A to a plan that works... (Many of them) struggle with one of the most fundamental concept that undermines their efforts – the ability to correctly define and run experiments. (more)

Creating, D And D (more)

camera that stores your Photo-s only as digital files, no film ever. (more)