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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Calling and intuitionVia Business Insider, intuition can be a help in making decisions quickly. How can you develop your intuition? One way to do it is to have a strong sense of calling. Let's talk about calling first.In Conversations About Calling (hardcover,...
The old value-add?Back in the day, I always heard the term "value-add," as the kind of extra a seller threw in to show the product or service was worth the price being asked. An article argues those small extras appeal to Millennials, especially in the beauty markets....
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems
Via Nautilus: modeling the real world, with constraints like melting ice cream and idiosyncratic human behavior, is often where the real challenge lies. As mathematicians, operations research specialists, and corporate executives set out to mathematize and optimize...
Refresh Provides Creepy Dossiers on People to Avoid Awkward Small Talk
Via Lifehacker: Refresh is an iOS app that's currently in private beta, though you can get access by signing in with your LinkedIn account credentials. The premise is simple: connect your social accounts and Refresh will create a dossier of things you should chit chat...
Refresh Provides Creepy Dossiers on People to Avoid Awkward Small Talk
Via Lifehacker: Refresh is an iOS app that's currently in private beta, though you can get access by signing in with your LinkedIn account credentials. The premise is simple: connect your social accounts and Refresh will create a dossier of things you should chit chat...
Considering the Horror of Zuckerbergian Dystopias
Via New York Times: Technologists are often utopianists. No one writer understands this bizarre world view better than Jaron Lanier. In his latest book, “Who Owns The Future?” Lanier critiques our current digital economy with an incredible wealth of insider’s...
Considering the Horror of Zuckerbergian Dystopias
Via New York Times: Technologists are often utopianists. No one writer understands this bizarre world view better than Jaron Lanier. In his latest book, “Who Owns The Future?” Lanier critiques our current digital economy with an incredible wealth of insider’s...
21st century risk management
Via Business Insider: Many people think about risk management as a defensive strategy, a tool for minimizing exposure to economic crises or public-relations blowouts. But Russell Walker, a clinical associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at...