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This goes well with his recent essay “Lessons from 4 independent years”
In 2003 I quit my management job at Microsoft to try to live by writing books, teaching and public speaking. It was the scariest decision I’d made in my life and here on the other side, about 4 years later, is what I’ve learned. [...]
Here is a round-up of some good Gannthead articles
Why Employees Jump Ship
Contrary to popular belief, lousy pay is not often the primary reason for quitting a job. Not that money isn’t important, but it’s seldom the primary reason most people change jobs.
If you take job insecurity as a given, statistics predict that you won’t be [...]
IBM and others are using Second Life and other virtual worlds to help with coordination and staff geographical and cultural barriers.
The (Virtual) Global Office
A really good article on how energy expensive the web is. Green Data Centres and energy awareness has definitely gone mainstream.
So you???ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn???t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an [...]
From Kevin Kelly:
You’ll be hearing more about sovereign wealth funds and flows in the future.
A sovereign wealth fund is a huge heap of money that is controlled by a nation — say Singapore or Saudi Arabia — rather than by a private transnational company. The latter is called private equity funds and their investments have [...]
Ever since I read Timothy D. Wilson’s magnificent “Strangers to Ourselves“, I have been fascinated with the fact that we often know less about ourselves than our closest friends and family (thanks probably to our many cognitive biases) .
Enter MIT’s Reality Mining Project:
[O]ur ultimate goal is to create a predictive classifier that [...]
The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
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Exceptional Performance: “Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.”
These are great tips.
The guys at Blue Design Studio has a brand new list of their favourite Wordpress Content Management System (CMS) Plugins.
It is a great list for those interested in using Wordpress as a CMS.
Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio
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