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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Excerpt from “The Upside of Irrationality” by Dr. Dan Ariely.
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Phrase of the day: "maturation of social media marketing"
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How Kafka Made Me Think & Everything is an Allegory
I love reading things like The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction because they stretch my understanding and make me think harder than average. Fortunately I have an amazing team who can think much harder about these things (hell, I can’t
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I need your help. Can I borrow a book?
I am going to read 52 books in 2014. I might buy some new books along the way, but I am more interested in reading books that my friends love so that we can discuss them. This is where you come in… 1. What non-fiction* book
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What made me smile today?
Walking into the living room to see my bride acting like a 7 year old on Christmas morning, "Ready to go pick up Nora!?!"
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We need a new word for too-common-sense-to-remember
Lifehacker recently shared some tips about making meetings more valuable. Specifically, you should ask the following three questions at the end of every meeting: “ * What do we see as the next steps? * Who should take responsibility for them? * And what should the timeframe be? Record the answers and send out
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Fear is an unbelievable motivator
photo (cc) by darknetportal "Fear is an unbelievable motivator, but it also makes people freeze in their tracks. Once you start to understand it, fear becomes something you can tap into. Fear comes from the understanding that you can die. It usually makes me make really good decisions and
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Viral, that's something that either kills people or is immunized against, right?
"… after the Army blows up a village they come back around with a couple of sacks of rice to smooth over the damage…” /via Luke O'Neil in The Year We Broke the Internet