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Risk!

By Adam Rifkin

Your task is to find the risks worth taking. No risk is worth taking.

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My 22 Favorite Slides from Reid Hoffman's "The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful Graduates" Slide Deck

How to spot a murderer's brain | Science | The Observer

For part of your life, you worry about your future. Eventually you stop doing this and you spend time regretting your past.

The pmarca Guide to Career Planning, Part 1: Opportunity - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 2: When the VCs say "NO" - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The Best Time of Year to Buy Everything

Living with less is only for the rich

Executive Summary of The Startup of You, by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

Every time I fail at something, the press loves to write about it, but you shouldn’t let that scare you. ~Vinod Khosla

Uniting Refugees in an Unconventional Way: Lessons Learned - Forbes

Risk Averse = Reward Averse

Take your risks now. As you grow older you become more fearful and less flexible. ~Amy Poehler

Jared Diamond’s Guide to Reducing Life’s Risks - NYTimes.com

What happens when you drop out of Princeton to move to the Shaolin Temple and master Kung Fu?

He won't approach cliff edges because he says the risk isn't worth it. This is how he looks over, every time.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T.S. Eliot

Making Risk-Taking Riskier Will Hurt Startups

The President Reads His Daily Brief on an iPad (and Other Lessons From the NSA)

Everest Deaths in 2012 | Mount Everest | OutsideOnline.com

Can This 17-Year-Old Save America's Education System? - Forbes

Four Steps to the Epiphany: the Moby Dick of start-up books « robocosmist

Nothing great comes without effort.

"Innovation can’t happen without accepting the risk that it might fail." ~Neal Stephenson

On Fear, Love, Learning, Risk, and Startups...

"Hey, you're stupid looking, do something else..."

The Education System That Pulled China Up May Now Be Holding It Back - The Atlantic

Eliminate all the gatekeepers! ~Jeff Bezos

Risk-taking isn't the enemy of a properly functioning economy.

The 11 risks VCs evaluate | ex post facto

Paddle Through Your Fear: Director Sharon Stevenson Explains How - Forbes

Malcolm Gladwell on entrepreneurship (from 2010)

How can you improve your ability to judge life's risks and rewards?

Somebody Said It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest (~1917)

Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration

Take chances, take a lot of them.

The best way to manage a fledgling business is to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

"We welcome risk when we're young, we avoid risk when we're older." ~@jack