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- People continue to undervalue and underestimate hyperlinks. This might not seem immediately relevant but it’s a magic technology that our predecessors would’ve done anything to have
from visakanv's 50yr "plan" for global nerd network [wip] by Visakan Veerasamy
What will your epitaph say? When our kids were babies I was still struggling to try to put the work/lifebalance in perspective. Someone gave me a thought that I tried to live my live my life around. He asked me, when you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, “ He never missed a meeting .” Or one that
... See morefrom Steve Blank Epitaph for an Entrepreneur by Steve Blank
No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn’t have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd
from The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
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- For example, sales at Blueland, an environmentally minded cleaning supply startup, have increased “pretty meaningfully” over the past several weeks — a “surge in demand” both from new customers and repeat buyers — to the point where demand now surpasses supply, co-founder and CEO Sarah Paiji Yoo tells The New Consumer.
from What happens to sustainability and ‘clean’ consumption after all this? by Dan Frommer
- So it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke Palesti... See more
from Debunking Myths About Israel & Palestine by Gurwinder
there is no moral equivalence - If online courses are poorly designed, why have they become so popular? To students, MOOCs offer more convenience and lower cost than traditional education. To educators, it offers an unbelievably attractive business model with infinite scalability. You prepare a course once and, in theory, millions of people can buy it without your additional inpu... See more
from Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education? by Alen Faljic
- I now consider in-person references with someone who knows the candidate well 5x more valuable than an interview. They can be 10x more valuable when you are already in a high-trust relationship with the reference-giver, and the reference-giver is in a position to see the candidate clearly, with no agendas and few blind spots of their own.
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog