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Fixing the Financial Markets Mess

Here's a very smart solution to the current financial market crisis. "Dr Jon" highlights the key dimensions for success for the $700 Billion bailout:

• financial transparency
• mark-to-market
• liquidity
• trade these "bad" assets on the open market (don't just give the money to a few Wallstreeters with no accountability and transparency
• provide upside to the taxpayers

More excellent commentary by Fred Wilson on whether to Splurge vs. No Splurge and Mark Cuban on creating an open market for these financial instruments / "assets".

If you're on Twitter, follow Andy Finkle, Fred Wilson, Howard Lindzon, atask and others to learn more.

Leave the screen behind and engage in a real conversation

Do you suffer from "Screen Addiction"? Spend too much time glued to your iPhone, MacBook Pro, SMS, Facebook, Twitter? Forget what it's like to actually meet someone face-to-face and engage in a conversation, a REAL conversation using your mouth, ears, eyes and brain?

Here's the cure ... Brought to you by Meetup.com

Curiosity : 7 centuries later

I don't think you'll find anyone that disagrees that curiosity is a fundamental driver of innovation and exploration.

For me, it is singularly the most empowering and magical force that has enabled us to explore, conquer, define and design the Universe in which we live.

I looked up the dictionary definition of curiosity and discovered it originated almost 7 centuries ago. Back then it had a very negative connotation:

spying, peeping. Curious, inquisitive, meddlesome, prying refer to taking an undue (and petty) interest in others' affairs. Curious implies a desire to know what is not properly one's concern: curious about a neighbor's habits. Inquisitive implies asking impertinent questions in an effort to satisfy curiosity: inquisitive about a neighbor's habits. Meddlesome implies thrusting oneself into and taking an active part in other people's affairs entirely unasked and unwelcomed: a meddlesome cousin who tries to run the affairs of a family. Prying implies a meddlesome and persistent inquiring into others' affairs: a prying reporter inquiring into the secrets of a business firm.

Luckily we've moved beyond this negativity and I applaud curiosity and its power to drive innovation, learning, science, art, expression.