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  • TED: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

    The world is changing faster than we’re learning… therefore we have to accept (smart) failure as the new modus operandi, according to Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world.

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  • How to Create a Sick System

    Good for weekend reading… hoping that you’ll be able to just quickly leave the treadmill and think about whether you’re caught in a sick system! Sick systems: How to keep someone with you forever.

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  • 21st Century Gestures Clip Art Collection

    We live in modern times indeed! 21st Century Gestures Clip Art Collection

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    Markus Perdrizat

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  • The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

    The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.: Typical depictions of social class in the United States posit a linear, ordered hierarchy. I’ve actually come to the conclusion that there are 3 distinct ladders, with approximately four social classes on each. Additionally, there is an underclass of people not connected to any of the…

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  • Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth

    Following up from the Epic Hack, here’s an interesting piece about the guy who supposedly pioneered some of the new social engineering hacks. I wonder how much of everything else Cosmo has told me is true. The only thing I am certain of is that online security is an illusion. But I think he is…

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  • Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur?

    A few words about Mr. Jobs, by way of a Wired Article, The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?, and Vinod Khosla‘s response to it. Austen’s article draws a caricature of Jobs and puts forth a series of false choices. After reading it, you might be convinced that you can either…

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  • Facebook and Twitter, the AOL and CompuServe of Today

    Good piece from Matthew Ingram. I like to compare Facebook and Twitter to AOL and CompuServe of the old internet days… and wonder when the open social network will come around, like “the internet” came around to save us from the other guys’ closed ecosystems? This week marks the 21st anniversary of the world’s first…

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  • The Trap of Marginal Thinking

    Interesting and motivational. Go read it. Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. via Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”.

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  • Irreducible

    Some good thoughts, and a nice quote: The future is in apps you don’t open via Irreducible. My primary example for this is always that in the future, the computer (whatever it’s going to be called) will know what you want before you know, and will have delivered it. There will no longer be such…

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  • Contrarian Analysts

    You know why an analyst sometimes go all in on contrarian opinions? Because if they turn out to have been right, they get all the recognition for having been the first to see a new trend. And if they were wrong, then it’s just one more time they weren’t 100% right. The only drawback is…

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