Guy is, well, he is a smart guy. Guy Kawasaki has been Apple Macintosh evangelist for years before he founded the venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures which makes direct investments in technology companies and Internet start-ups. I’ve learned a great deal on Guy’s blog, where, as he says, he wants to empower entrepreneurs. In fact, many of his blog posts teach you more than you could ever learn in school. For example, take his August 2006 blog post “Ten Things to Learn This School Year“:

It seems to me that schools often teach the opposite of what’s necessary for the real world. Perhaps in school people have plenty of time and no money, so long papers, emails, and presentations are not a problem. However, people in the real world have plenty of money (or at least more money) and no time. This is a list of what I wished I learned in school before I graduated.

What follows is a list of ten great advices like “How to explain something in thirty seconds” or “How to write a five-sentence email”. In school they teach you how to write ten-page essays, but what they don’t teach you is how to get all your important arguments into one page or less. It’s always been my opinion that what you learn in school is much more theoretical than it is practical (read: useful).

Therefore, take ten minutes of your time and read Guy’s blog post mentioned above, because it will be ten minutes well-spent.

Link: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_things_to_l.html