September 2009
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Working hard is overrated →
Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save...
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“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”
– William Safire (Source)
WatchYou gotta look at facial expression of Iranian President, Ahamdinejad when Time reporter asked him about the recently disclosed Iranian secret nuclear. Seems like he was taken completely by surprise and he didn’t know that Obama was revealing about it the same morning during G20 meeting.
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“Something that’s very important for us to communicate is usually very simple....”
– Yoko Ono via SvN
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“Meaning of Punctuality, “It’s so important. I use commas, periods...”
– Funny One Liners
Post-medium publishing →
You can still make money from publishing.
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“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
– Harlan Ellison
Programmers top 10 sentences →
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China’s coming magnificent bubble →
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WatchTan Le, co-founder of Emotive Systems demonstrate mind controlling device (sounds scary)
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
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WatchYet another slide remembering Lehman Brother’s down fall. This time from BBC and its in audio format.
Today mark the first anniversary of Financial Tsunami that nearly parallizes global finance with the bankruptcy of Lehman - the biggest bankruptcy ever in the history of the US.
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Economic Donkeys →
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WatchThe events that led to the fall of Lehman Brothers triggering near end of the global financial system
Related articles:
Wall Street never changes
Tales from Fallen soldiers of Lehman Brothers
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“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
– Richard Bach
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University's greed and rising tution cost
I was reading a post by G.E. Miller and it really struck me.
Universities like Harvard, Yale, MIT, NYU, Colombia and many others have endowment funds of billions and more. Even some public universities have such funds. And of course most of them have gone sour because of current economic turmoil and steep market. But one thing has not gone decreased, the tuition cost. Even in this economic slow...
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$111.4 Billion budget deficit in August →
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
– Aristotle Onassis
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WatchTED videos are always interesting but some are quite unique and fascinating.
This video is about reading others’ mind and it’s quite interesting to see the change in the response of same answer when asked to different ages. The motives and feelings of human beings change as we grow and get involves in the real world. But how does brain does such thing?
Watch the video by yourself!
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American... →
Do we really need to go to Harvard or Stanford or MIT when we have the web in the form of blogs, Wikipedia, e-books, Wiki universities and Free online courses?
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Why do so few U.S. college students graduate? →
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Which one is fake and which one is correct?
Just few days ago there was a news about a teenager who claimed to have invented £23 solar panel made from human hair.
And contradicting that claim, here is another another article.
Just tell me which is fake and which is correct?
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”
– Bobby Knight
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