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The labor force has been radically restructured (by the Boomers, not insignificantly) so that we work, when we can find work at all, longer hours for less money with no job security. How does one save up for a car or mortgage down payment on the kind of salaries most people who weren’t born into …

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It’s not Facebook specifically that’s making you depressed — it’s everything. It’s the texts you don’t receive. It’s the exes your friends can’t seem to get rid of. It’s the cyber-bullying on Ask.fm. It’s the indexing of everything you do or say, and the photo of yous, passed out on the floor of a bar …

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I commend you all for your engagement activity because that’s how I see it is. We might be doling out some information or data to you but it’s your engagement with challenges, with opportunities that you might see. That really is where we are trying to move the city more towards. Otto Doll, Minneapolis CIO, …

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rasdivine: yannickbrouwer: This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis Dope

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review

Interesting.  What do you think?Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review

stoweboyd: susanmernit: The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London’s Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda, who lives …

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natgeofound: To entertain the men, Captain Robert Scott took a gramophone on his South Pole Expedition. Chris, one of his dogs, was apparently also a fan, September 1911.Photograph by Herbert G. Ponting, National Geographic Pre-Sirius travel.

What people who do write do understand

stoweboyd: Liz Danzico: Woody Allen recently: What people who don’t write don’t understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don’t. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it’s the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don’t …

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