April Joyner |
Assorted, bite-size musings on entrepreneurship, entertainment, education, race, social justice, life, etc. |
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Notes"While war is always the easiest solution to anybody’s funding problem, you don’t want war to be the modern day driver of space….So going forward, the economic argument is a strong one, but it’s not a simple ‘A goes to B.’ It’s not ‘We need more innovation, so let’s fund innovation companies.’"Neil deGrasse Tyson, on the rationale for supporting NASA
Funnily enough, I hear the last line of this quote a lot in relation to encouraging startups. There might be some lessons here for the entrepreneurial community. For more on this topic, check out this Q&A I did with Eugene Fitzgerald of MIT on innovation, back in December 2010.(Source: The Atlantic)
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I Got So Much Faith In This Little Dude Kendrick.
Been sitting on this one for too long. Figure Dre Day + a week before Kendrick’s two...
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Joining The Atlantic
I’m excited to announce that next month I’ll be joining The Atlantic with the somewhat intimidating title of “Entrepreneur in...
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Diverse Pages exists to promote and discover Main Characters of Color (MCoC) in the mainstream and independent...
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Free analytics for your personal Tumblr!
Good news, everyone! We’ve been hard at work keeping a promise we made when we first launched Union...
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It’s the 15th Anniversary of Sex and the City’s premiere and we still don’t understand Carrie Bradshaw’s accessory choices. Here’s to you, CB, the...
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The Borowitz Report: A Letter to Verizon Customers
1. Will I be charged extra for this service?
I’m happy to say that the answer is no. While...
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Ebony Man
My freshman year at Howard, my mother bought me a subscription to Ebony Man magazine. I had zero appreciation for it at...
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The guy who wrote this synopsis now writes jokes on George Takei’s Facebook page for $10 a pop. Progress!
I’ve always wondered...
