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I’m reading another book called Future Smart by James Canton. It’s about what the future may bring and what you may need to be thinking of doing to prepare. Some of the things he predicts seems very obvious, like predicting that we will all be connected due to the Internet, social media and Internet of…
I’m reading a book about being a better thinker and making better decisions, called Mindware by Richard E. Nisbett. So far, it has been chockfull of interesting information. I haven’t delved very far (been too busy) so I haven’t reached the section that will tell me how to think better. But so far, the book…
There was an article in the New York Times about a private equity firm that once again contributes to finance’s bad image. In case you haven’t noticed, I do not have much regards for hedge funds and equity firms; I regard them as being leeches on society. They make too much money for the value…
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how “passion” was overused. Doing work that you are passionate about does not always lead to sustainable living. I’m of the belief that not only you have to love what you are doing but you have to talent for it and that there is a…
In LinkedIn last week, BP had a posting of a puzzle: “What is unique about the following number? 8,549,176,320.” The responses I saw were giving answers to the puzzle. I looked at it and wondered: “I wonder if this puzzle is out on Google?” I googled the number and sure enough, it is out there….
Amazon has been hit lately with some bad press surrounding its work culture. The spate of articles was kicked off by the New York Times article describing the “brutal” work culture in Amazon followed up by other publishers’ smaller articles commenting on an aspect of the main article. The NY Times article was pretty damning…
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