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Family Became Corporate

It was only 11 years ago that family became corporate in Los Angeles. The O'Malley family, who had long-stood as the owners of the Dodgers baseball organization, both in Brooklyn and in Los Angeles, had sold the team to Rupert Murdoch and the media moguls at Fox News Corp. Family became corporate. The attitude of doing it right was lost for doing it for dollars. And the first move Murdoch and Co. made while at the helm - trading Mike Piazza towards the end of his contract to the Florida Marlin...

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. This phrase, published on the back of the final publication of The Whole Earth Catalog, and repeated by Steve Jobs to the Stanford Graduating Class of 2005, speaks of adventure, of failure, and ultimately, of success. Whether this success is measured in terms of personal, monetary, of professional success, can vary, and much of this measure of success is left to the determination of one entity - you. In Jobs' commencement speech, he spoke of life and death, of love...