I would not trust a boss in judging who’s a giver or a taker but actually go to the people who work laterally or below that person.
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A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it.
I’m really not fit to be an employee of any other enterprise and that’s how I ended up as an entrepreneur.
If there is no drama in a meeting it has no purpose for being.
Let’s suppose you are running the perfect state, the perfect government. You would want to go on a little world tour before you got down to business to see the […]
“People as old as 90 who actively acquire new interests that involve learning retain their ability to learn. But if we stop taxing the nucleus basalis, it begins to dry up.”
When the nurse footprinted my son at birth, she declared, “his foot almost doesn’t fit in the box” on her special Baby Footprint Form (nurses and doctors like things to fit […]
How the mis-application of the Anthropic Principle has led factions of scientists away from the search for a natural, physical explanation of our Universe, and why that’s bad for everyone. […]
There’s a kind of hostility to teachers that underlines the current corporate reform narrative.
When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
My research shows that for each additional job in a high-tech company in a local community, you create about five additional jobs outside high-tech in that community.
Did you know you can raise money without having a business plan? You can get publicity for your idea without knowing anyone. You can find love even if you think you’re too busy.
By the time you finish reading this short article, I hope you agree with me so much that you’ll join me on my mission against “dieting” — at least the way the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has been pushing it on everyone for years.
Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed.
I’m not sure we can harness desire into identity in a way that doesn’t do some violence to it.
Biology gives us the general moral sense and the general ability to develop a moral system but the specific rules that we apply in our society are not necessarily given by biology.
There is a growing realization that weather modification projects are not only possible, but could also be an affordable solution to climate change.
Be prepared for the fact that the upcoming year won’t be free of distractions and problems no matter how hard you work on your goals, but the most important thing is to stay within the routine you establish and don’t attach yourself to the results.
Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
Mentors can steer you away from the kinds of mistakes that are going to make you waste a year or two of your life.
Doctors offered to turn off Stephen Hawking’s life support machine in 1985, the British cosmologist revealed in a new documentary to be released along with his memoirs this fall.
Cameras are part of war-waging and they’re also part of the way in which a general population assesses what is happening.
What the entire natural history of everything would look like compressed down into a single calendar year. “[D]on’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live […]
Lee Smolin posits the idea that new universes are born from parent universes through the mechanism of black holes.
Guest post by Todd Norton (Cross post from toddnorton.me) If there is one thing I have learned as a teacher, it is that someone outside of the classroom is always […]
As the world has gone from connected to interconnected to interdependent, I believe we’ve entered a new era.
Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers.
We are interlinked with everybody and therefore, they are helping us.
Certain anatomical parts, for all human history, have been there but we haven’t asked what are they for.
The ability now to create a company is so much more efficient because you don’t have to like guess in advance what you’re going to be able to do with it.