The Google story

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Paul, As always it is a very thoughtful and incisive article. However, I have certain reservations on Google trying to sell out, especially after I read The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed. I believe for young people (especially tech students), the idea is not to make a lot of money. It is more of a passion, a will to change the world. Yes, they may have failed as well. I may not say the same for people who are in the industry for long or MBA types. Also at the same time it is a bit of luck, destiny or hand of God. More @ http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-we-do-not-see-mor...

I actually don't read any of the above unless linked from another source - too much noise, not enough signal. I read Programming Reddit, News.YC, and occasionally Startupping and LambdaTheUltimate. I try to keep up with some blogs of startup-type people - Dharmesh Shah, Joe Kraus, Raganwald, Paul Buchheit, Mark Fletcher, and Marc Andreesen and Wil Schroter look interesting based on their recently-linked news.YC articles. Also, don't underestimate the importance of good old fashioned dead-tree books. I know it's fashionable to spend all day online now, but I still find I get lots more information out of published works than the Internet (the net is great for pointers to books, though). I read a lot of history, economics, corporate histories, some biographies, theoretical computer science, etc. Some selected titles off my reading history (m…