January 2011
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Culture in Netflix. Based on wisdom?
Having just flicked though Netflix’s corporate culture slides it looks like most of it is based on common sense or wisdom. Clear-cut processes and rules strip us of wisdom and our own judgement.
Culture in Netflix sounds pretty rosy. However, it all does look like most of the popular business writings - black OR white (rosy). I’d doubt that a social system can completely rely on...
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“Obesity is more strongly related to people’s subjective sense of their...”
– Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
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Managing Heretics
Ben Horowitz nailed it once again. In his recent post he talks about smart people becoming bad employees. He outlines three main types - The Heretic, The Flake and The Jerk.
The Heretic attracted my attention as this is something I can identify with in my previous employment experience. (What a stupid thing to acknowledge publicly on your own blog, huh?! Or is it?).
I do consider myself a rebel....
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“USA - a country that spends somewhere between 40-50% of the world’s total...”
– Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
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Teaching in Higher Education sucks
Here I am back in University that prides itself on world-class teaching quality. It’s now term 2 of the final year. After almost three academic years spent here I do think that teaching in Aston is far from excellent. It turns out that Aston is not the only one suffering from this problem.
I was inspired to write this post after watching Dr. Tae’s brilliant (if at times a little over...
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“If you piss away your work time you’ve pissed away your life since...”
– Tom Peters
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Why Twitter is better than RSS
A bold headline. Here’s the reason why.
Twitter does not make me feel overwhelmed
Twitter does not display all the tweets that I have missed while I was away. Even the Twitter app for iPhone cleverly hides chunks of older posts in the middle (between the newest and the oldest).
The amount of information everywhere is overwhelming. Thanks to Twitter I can get rid of this feeling of...
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“More than 90% of the very wealthiest people in China are relatives of Communist...”
– Robert Guest
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“We depend on Facebook for our social graph, and Twitter for our “interest...”
– John Battelle
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“I open doors, I close doors,” he wrote. He loved no one, he loved...”
– Patti Smith about Robert Mapplethorpe
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“Peter Drucker has tried for 60 years to take the capital out of capitalism. He...”
– Jack Beatty
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“In both America and Europe it is almost as hard to reward an outstanding teacher...”
– The Economist
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“Loneliness is failed solitude.”
– Sherry Turkle
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“We’re not necessarily putting our investment in the ties that bind;...”
– Sherry Turkle
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