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We work too much. And it's our fault
Long hours deplete our ability to make good choices and make it harder to fit in a full night of sleep. As a result, workers are less productive, less healthy, even less ethical.
Richard Brisebois
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On the power of analyzing what you do
Don't recreate what just worked. Analyze the process you went through to create that result. If you go for the result, it ain't gonna work. It might, but it's luck, it's not technique. Process. From a master class here. See also the
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Ernest Hemingway's suggested readings
* "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane * "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane * Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert * Dubliners by James Joyce * The Red and the Black by Stendhal * Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy * Buddenbrooks
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Start with the light
Doc Searls on his blog. "I start with the light," he says. "I say 'where do we want the light?'" We wanted our light coming from the direction of our hilltop view toward San Francisco Bay. We also wanted to enjoy that light outdoors
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Want to Be a Leader? Keep a Journal
Nancy Adler: Extraordinary leadership is rooted in several capabilities: seeing before others see, understanding before others understand, and acting before others act. A leader’s unique perspective is an important source of creativity and competitive advantage. But the reality is that most of us live such fast-paced, frenzied lives
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Computer science, software engineering, and their disregard for safety: it's like giving a kid a loaded gun
Yonatan Zunger in the Boston Globe: Computer science is a field of engineering. Its purpose is to build systems to be used by others. But even though it has had its share of events which could have prompted a deeper reckoning — from the Therac-25 accidents, in which misprogrammed radiation
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The medium is the massage: on doing the same expecting a different result
James Shelley on his blog: Put the same group of people in another room. Give them pipe cleaners, Play-Doh, a stage, a guitar, and LEGO. Ask them to develop an idea. How different will the ideas be that emerge from the two different rooms? In other words: How do
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Discovery is not finding new lands, it's something else
But the question is: How? Manipulating the world we see through our mental lenses comes naturally to us. Seeing and manipulating the lenses themselves, on the other hand, feels much tougher: It’s like trying to explain the concept of water to fish. But Colum McCann’s eight-point-font
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We get the capitalism we deserve
Every era, every region and every civilization gets the capitalism it deserves. Currently, considered alternatives to capitalism are hard to identify. But within capitalism, very different variants and alternatives can be observed and even more of them can be imagined. It is their development that matters. The reform of capitalism
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Less time does not promote deeper thought
[T]he more urgently technology incentivizes us to respond to a proposition, the more we rely on our own heuristics. Less time does not promote deeper thought. Today, when you are compelled to comment right away, ask yourself, “How would I respond to this differently if I had to invest
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No need for testing. You CAN interview for emotional intelligence
Last week I was facilitating a People and Business Management workshop with managers from all over the U.S. and a question came up about whether personality instruments might be useful in the hiring process. As luck would have it, I read an article in the Harvard Business Review that
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Holding a meeting of people from different cultures
In one of the People and Business Management workshops that I facilitate we ask participants to outline how they would approach their first meeting as the manager of a multicultural team. I'm always pleasantly surprised by the imagination and inclusiveness of the responses. This article in the Harvard