I am a huge fan of reading online — I can generally do it for hours a day. But with the explosion of great blogs, online magazines and news sources, personal development sites, social media and more … how do you deal with the anxiety that comes with it?
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The signal-to-noise ratio in the NoSQL world has made it hard to figure out what’s going on, or even who has something new. For all the talk of performance in the NoSQL world, much of the most exciting part of what’s new is really not about performance at all.
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China has grown increasingly friendly towards Europe as the EU's sovereign debt crisis unfolds, and it is gently but steadily advancing its pawns in the single market. There are still few Chinese-owned factories in Europe, but Beijing has been advancing its interests over the last three years.
SINGAPORE: Deliberations on leaving a secure Afghanistan after NATO withdraws- as NATO is doing in Chicago today – are essential. But the world is facing an even more urgent crisis that calls for immediate, coordinated action by the Group of 20.
It's easy to dismiss this as a romanticization. Summer camp syndrome. Undeniably though, the arrangement was rare. Rare by virtue of location. Rare by virtue of the breadth and passion and diversity of those in attendance. Rare by virtue of presence.
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Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can quickly get out of control.
Vinnie Mirchandani has been busting my balls the last year or so, complaining that SAP and other large enterprise players are no longer the real power houses they were. His book, The New Technology Elite makes the point that:
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Whether you like it or not, competition today is fierce. And it’s only going to get fiercer. Where the old battleground was price and efficiency, the new one will be innovation and time to market. The tech startup world has Eric Ries’s Lean Startup movement, which teaches us how to be fast (and iteratively build a product which consumers love, the fabled "market fit"). But it doesn’t tell us a lot about innovation.
IF/When have my own company this is the way to run it.
Helvetica is a tried and true typeface. It’s a testament to Swiss design culture, with its clarity, flexibility and outright perfection. This famous typeface is loved for countless reasons, including its ability to take on any feeling, emotion or imagery, which it can do simply because it has no personality of its own.
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Cover photo for a 1964 brochure for the PDS 1020 Digital Computer.
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