my favorite companies

• Google for innovation, vision, ambition, creative destruction, products, founders, and unconventional corporate culture

• Berkshire Hathaway for founder, investment & management philosophies, unparalled execution, annual letters, and unique corporate structure

 more to come....

my favorite authors/thought leaders and books

• Andy Grove, Intel's founder and author of Only the Paranoid Survive
• Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times' "foreign affairs" columnist and author of The World is Flat and The Lexus and the Olive Tree
• Clayton Christensen, Innosight's founder, HBS professor and author of The Innovators Dilemma
• Robert J. Shiller, Yale professor and author of The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century
• Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor, founder of Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, leader of the Creative Commons project, and author of Free Culture, The Future of Ideas, and Code 2.0 
• Richard Baraniuk, Rice engineering professor and founder of Connexions

more to come....