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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
A way to remember the 5 personality dimensions
A way to remember the components of the 5-factor personality model is via the acronym OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, non-negativity). Authors developing characters for their stories can use this as a template.
Where there is scarcity…
...someone will spot the economic opportunity: "CME is the world’s largest futures exchange and will launch the ability to trade in contracts for California’s water market later this year."
Supreme beings of leisure
Via Instapundit and USA Today: …the upside is that with robots doing the work, humans will get to be supreme beings of leisure (OK, not actual Supreme Beings of Leisure) living life as they please without, as Philip Larkin wrote, letting "the toad work squat on my...
Supreme beings of leisure
Via Instapundit and USA Today: …the upside is that with robots doing the work, humans will get to be supreme beings of leisure (OK, not actual Supreme Beings of Leisure) living life as they please without, as Philip Larkin wrote, letting "the toad work squat on my...
Don’t Forget the Middle Performers
Via CLOmedia: …a bell curve exists where the new hires and high potentials are the special cases of the workforce and receive most of the training, while middle-performers making up the majority are left out of the pipeline preparations. With the right attention,...
Don’t Forget the Middle Performers
Via CLOmedia: …a bell curve exists where the new hires and high potentials are the special cases of the workforce and receive most of the training, while middle-performers making up the majority are left out of the pipeline preparations. With the right attention,...
A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot
Via Christian Post: Have you ever been in a situation like that, when you wanted to say the perfect thing, yet you ended up saying the lamest thing possible?An old proverb advises, "Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and dispel all...
A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot
Via Christian Post: Have you ever been in a situation like that, when you wanted to say the perfect thing, yet you ended up saying the lamest thing possible?An old proverb advises, "Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and dispel all...