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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr
Via The Boston Globe: Book review: ‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr - Books - The Boston Globe.Key sentence: "...all of us will see our skills eroded, our intelligence debased, and our work devalued, if we sacrifice human responsibility...
‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr
Via The Boston Globe: Book review: ‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr - Books - The Boston Globe.Key sentence: "...all of us will see our skills eroded, our intelligence debased, and our work devalued, if we sacrifice human responsibility...
International Private Security Firms Are Growing Up And Planning For The Future
Via Business Insider: At its peak, the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting, a bipartisan legislative commission established to study wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated there might have been as many as 260,000 contractors in the two countries. …...
3 Reasons Why You’re Hardwired to Learn the Hard Way
Via Dumb Little Man: If only we had listened to that sage advice. But the truth is, we’re not hardwired to learn that way. 3 Reasons Why You’re Hardwired to Learn the Hard Way - by Dumb Little Man Points: We learn best from experience – According to Benjamin Bloom’s...
3 Reasons Why You’re Hardwired to Learn the Hard Way
Via Dumb Little Man: If only we had listened to that sage advice. But the truth is, we’re not hardwired to learn that way. 3 Reasons Why You’re Hardwired to Learn the Hard Way - by Dumb Little Man Points: We learn best from experience – According to Benjamin Bloom’s...
Hacking your own education
Via KurzweilAI: If you want to be unremarkably average, go to college, turn in your homework, and graduate summa cum laude. You’ll have a college degree to your name, but you won’t be any closer to changing the world. Hacking your own education | KurzweilAI A road...
Hacking your own education
Via KurzweilAI: If you want to be unremarkably average, go to college, turn in your homework, and graduate summa cum laude. You’ll have a college degree to your name, but you won’t be any closer to changing the world. Hacking your own education | KurzweilAI A road...
Evernote Pays For Its Employees To Have Their Houses Cleaned
Via Business Insider: …twice per month, its 250 workers are able to get their houses cleaned on Evernote. The idea came from CEO Phil Libin's wife. Evernote Pays For Its Employees To Have Their Houses Cleaned - Business Insider The better to keep you at work, my dear....