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“The Third Place” is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. In his influential book The Great, Good Place, Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place.

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Preserve your sparkling clean reinstalled Windows setup for instant restoration down the road: Instead of dropping cash on Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, burn yourself a free, bootable Linux-based System Rescue CD.

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Poke guy tears apart Tamagotchis, Screensavers, Interfaces that look like the tops of desks or tables et al.

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Guy Kawasaki is a smart guy: his 10-20-30 Rule of PowerPoint says that a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

Guy says:

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.

He goes on to list the ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:

1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint