Tag: Psycho
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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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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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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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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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The Search For Meaningful Work
Reminded me about my recent self: One of the key components to finding long term happiness is doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, meaningful work has become increasingly more difficult to find. A couple of hundred years ago, a person could look back on a day and see the field they planted that…
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Say goodbye to search and hello to BrainSpace
Good stuff – tell me what I want to do now! What PureDiscovery really wants to do — and what it’s working on for some customers — is build interest graphs for every user within the company. Aside from determining relationships between documents, that also means determining relationships between people, and between people and documents.…
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How to Become Creative
Scott Berkun, short and precise: Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication. via How to become creative – the short honest truth.
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Groupthink
You need somebody to challenge Groupthink in every team, but you also need a function to challenge it at the corporate level: Group Internal Audit can play that role too. Groupthink is a mode that a group of people gets into when they desire harmony in decision making without a realistic appraisal of alternatives and…
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Neither makes me very happy
Are you asking me or or telling me? 2322 (Ebenfalls)