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		<title>Free Range Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milquetoast Americans love to be afraid, and they love to live in constant fear. These fragile beings desire the government to step in and regulate all of our lives to their liking: the way we play, what we eat, where we smoke, when we can drink, how we drive, how we parent, where we educate –... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/free-range-kids/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Stock Market In 118 Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stock market is where people go to lend and borrow accumulated resources. For example, if you have a savings account, you are lending your resources to your bank during the time you do not plan to use them. The bank takes your deposit and invests it in productive investments, so your money grows and... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/the-stock-market-in-118-words/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurship And Vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Pallotta offers a perspective on creativity. Vulnerability, he says, and the willingness to be a &#8220;misfit&#8221; are two traits of visionaries: Imagine Walt Disney at the age of nineteen. His uncle asks him what he plans to do with his life, and he pulls out a drawing of a mouse and says, &#8220;I think... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/entrepreneurship-and-vulnerability/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/entrepreneurship-and-vulnerability/</link>
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		<title>On My Time In Castro&#8217;s Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now been two weeks since I returned from my nine day trip to Cuba. I&#8217;ve purposefully avoided writing about the island and my experiences until now. One of my greatest fears had to do with the necessary boiling down that conveyance of a thing like an alien land demands &#8212; especially one of which... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/on-my-time-in-castros-cuba/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How To Teach A Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Berkun, author and self-proclaimed &#8220;kick ass speaker&#8221; delivers a fun, breezy session on &#8220;The Myths of Innovation.&#8221; Much of the lecture will be familiar, in terms of the histories behind various start-ups and successes, but it&#8217;s the meaty substance he manages to pack in to his lecture, while keeping it engaging, that should make... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/how-to-teach-a-class/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Creatures Of Fragility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We may spend the better part of our professional lives projecting strength and toughness, but we are all in the end creatures of appalling fragility and vulnerability. Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few who hold... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/creatures-of-fragility/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://tomshakely.com/2010/08/creatures-of-fragility/</link>
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		<title>On The Human Whole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more frustrating things in the world is the tendency of news media and the scientific community to speak about human beings and of investigations into the brain, cognitive science, etc. in terms of &#8220;we did X, man did Y&#8221;, as if actions and reactions can tell the story of either Man or... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/on-the-human-whole/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/on-the-human-whole/</link>
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		<title>God And Bill Buckley At NPR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William F. Buckley, Jr. penned and read his essay for NPR&#8217;s &#8220;This I Believe&#8221; series in 2005: &#8220;How Is It Possible To Believe In A God?&#8221; Buckley&#8217;s characteristically erudite and linguistically graceful apologia for belief is important for its articulation of belief as a rational good, as something as motivated by intellectual reason as by... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/god-and-bill-buckley-at-npr/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/god-and-bill-buckley-at-npr/</link>
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		<title>Journalists And The Objectivity Canard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walk into almost any news room or journalism class in the country and, if polled, probably a majority will say something about the importance of objectivity in reporting. It&#8217;s not that they think they, as journalists, won&#8217;t have biases, but that they believe they will be sufficiently impartial in their reading of events, placement of... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/journalists-and-the-objectivity-canard/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/journalists-and-the-objectivity-canard/</link>
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		<title>The End Of Solitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Nicholas Carr published his six page cover story, &#8220;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&#8221; in The Atlantic earlier this year, he fired the first serious shot in what must become a central discussion of our generation. Carr&#8217;s assertion is anecdotal and introspective. He&#8217;s careful to note in his shot-across-the-bow article that we still &#8220;await the... <a href="http://tomshakely.com/2010/07/the-end-of-solitude/" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>]]></description>
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