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This lens is geared toward teaching you how to become Alex Krupp. I will tell you what to be interested in, what websites to visit, what books to read, what hobbies to pursue. To start with, visit alexkrupp.com and have a look around.
Become interested in the following:
(more to come later)
hierarchies, tea, microlending, infinite sum games, social software, venture capital, wikipedia, meta-aggregation, metacognition, social signaling, social systems, status anxiety, mesh networks, netroots, amateurism, anonymity, sports physiology, sensemaking, rss, mind mapping, mobile wireless, bourbon, usenet, crowd wisdom, attention economies, behaviorism, rowing, social transparency, open source, open standards, class mobility, digital identity, third spaces, illegal art, iced chai, collaborative media, wealth creation, visualizations, adult literacy, memetics, psychometrics, great gatsby, conspicuous consumption, wicked problems, accelerating change
Read these books:
(in this order)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
Amazon Price: (as of 11/11/2009) 
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Amazon Price: (as of 11/11/2009)
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
Amazon Price: $13.82 (as of 11/11/2009)
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 11/11/2009)
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 11/11/2009)
Visit the following websites:
(on a daily basis)
- Hacker News
- On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. - Kuro5hin
- Technology and culture, from the trenches.
edit: This site stopped being good circa 2005, but it's still worth checking out the unofficial best-of. - BoingBoing
- The directory of wonderful things.
- DailyKos
- All things Democrat.
- Seth Godin's Blog
- New economy goodness with a creamy filling.
- Gaping Void
- Snarky cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. You have to read some of the books on the list before they'll make any sense though.
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