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El problema con el futuro
El problema con el futuro es que no acaba de llegar nunca.
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Starbucks as unit of measure
via Fors Clavigera. Do yourself a favor: skip three days at Starbucks and sign up for a subscription today.
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Are you a nerd, a dork, or a geek?
via greatwhiteshark.com.
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Dear user: No, we don't do that
via Scripting News: Sometimes you just have to say no to users. No, we don't do that. If you want that feature feel free to get X, where X is the name of an app that promises to provide the annoying functionality. Especially when there's such
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The present political chaos is connected with the decay of language
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change
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Banderas puras
Se trate de Messi o de un sinpapeles. El fenómeno es universal. Quien haya vivido fuera de su país conoce bien el dilema de ser extranjero en su tierra de adopción y también -cuando regrese- en su propia tierra. los esencialistas [nacionalistas] sólo le dejan dos opciones: sobreactuar su identidad
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Business schools and their inability to make you think
via The Management Myth What they don’t seem to teach you in business school is that “the five forces” and “the seven Cs” and every other generic framework for problem solving are heuristics: they can lead you to solutions, but they cannot make you think. Case studies may provide
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Netflix's surreal strategy
Fact: Margins at the DVD business are expected to be around 50 per cent next quarter, and account for four-fifths of domestic profit. Margins for streaming are at about 8 per cent. Strategy: Heavier focus on streaming.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute?
via Tony Judt: We speak and write badly because we don't feel confident in what we think and are reluctant to assert it unambiguously.
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How I got my song - Leonard Cohen's Prince Of Asturias Speech
Following his nomination for the Prince of Asturias award. Poetry comes from a place that no one commands, that no one conquers. So I feel somewhat like a charlatan to accept an award for an activity which I do not command. In other words, if I knew where the good
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Silicon Valley parents send their children to a school that does NOT use computers
via NYTimes.com : But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.
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Work and play, leisure, not-work
Food for thought on the topic of work and non-work, and the false dichotomy between work and life. via The Road to Wigan Pier: There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them. The labourer