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by zipdog 15y ago
In some organisations I feel that #2 is pretty much all the day-to-day work of the manager. Once the team is assembled, functional and given a goal (these might involve #3 and #4) then the rest of the project is letting them do what they'r
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by zipdog 15y ago
Tying these together, it seems the manager assumes all is well unless alerted otherwise. This, at an extreme, could be a "set and forget" style management: once tasks are given if you hear nothing you expect the job delivered on time. I thi
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by zipdog 15y ago
Great article, although I wonder about the assertion that willpower is a solo thing. Surely social pressures act as motivating forces on our will to do things - for instance if we tell a few friends that we'd going to run a marathon then we
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by zipdog 15y ago
This is a decent use-case for the elastic networks that Color touted ... if a social network was pulling all the public activity from those in the vicinity into an automatic, temporary group that people could follow, the result would filter
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by zipdog 15y ago
Having been reading on early civilization settlements, I feel an interesting parallel to how deforestation caused some of their collapses. A core that overfeeds on resources while overgrowing onto them will generally collapse into its perip
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by zipdog 15y ago
I think the real test will be September: how many students have moved across to running their Social Networking through Plus, as opposed to Facebook or something else. Once terms begins I suspect people will form around one network or anoth
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by zipdog 15y ago
But the website is for the magazine, which is independently controlled by the NGS. The page does include a section for the tv channel, so I can see the logic, it just struck me as an anomoly.
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by zipdog 15y ago
I'm not sure if its a reason for their reluctance to do this earlier, but reporters tend to dislike updating their stories once posted (its better to write new copy), and links often have to be watched, because the serving site may change i
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by zipdog 15y ago
nationalgeographic.com is included because the Nat Geo tv channel is 2/3 owned by News, but otherwise the list looked about right (media outlets controlled by Murdoch companies).
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by zipdog 15y ago
True, but did he ever use props as Spiff? Most of the time he was in the classroom with Mrs Wormwood
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by zipdog 15y ago
Didn't Calvin once go to Mars in his red trolley?
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by zipdog 15y ago
Given the issue of launching projects under the weight of the Google brand, I don't see why Google doesn't borrow the idea of Hollywood studios to just have a 'separate studio' brand for things that aren't ready for the big time, while stil
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by zipdog 15y ago
I'd heard the version about the French paying a bounty for dead rats, both are great examples of how difficult it is to incentivize an behavior when all you can reward is a concrete outcome.
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by zipdog 15y ago
One thing about "you get what you measure/pay for" is that if you're clear about your incentives its much easier to see how your expectations and the employee's actions misalign. If you hide your measurements and incentives behind a complic
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by zipdog 15y ago
Easy payments through cell phones combined with ubiquitous, cheap phones combined with cell-phone interfaces to buy/sell/access everything (stocks, insurance, micropayment): this is a powerful change in the way people work and do everything
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by zipdog 15y ago
The last paragraph ties into business models like AirBnb and UberCab: where people just do some work or offer something and get paid for it, without a lot of red tape and hassles and registering as a business. It would be great if business
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by zipdog 15y ago
Its a shame to see the company go, but this email is another reminder of the danger of trusting your data to a company. A four day wind-down period after which user data is deleted is very short. It especially odd as their Privacy Policy do
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by zipdog 15y ago
If contracts and regulations require AAA-rated securities, then AAA-rated securities will appear to match the demand. As the author rightly points out: we have too many groups requiring AAA-rated securities and not enough real AAA stuff to
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by zipdog 15y ago
Small companys have an advantage, but the potential influence of a large organisation suggests that there's a great benefit in size if you can effectively overcome the natural tendency toward stagnation through a tree structure. I think tec
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by zipdog 15y ago
Interesting post. I think that two-column comparison tables are similar to the slopegraph and (if designed well) can convey the information almost as well, particularly if they have different coloured rise and fall arrows (with number of pl
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by zipdog 15y ago
Color 'launched' a few days after SXSW, and the founder wasn't particularly aware of the event or able to recognize the lost opportunity. SXSW would have given it the dense mass of people required to give a great first impression
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by zipdog 15y ago
Hemingway has such a style, so short and declarative... so suitable to a coding environment. Also, Cory Stoll did a great job of bringing Hemingway to life in a recent film, and its hard not to read this in his voice
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by zipdog 15y ago
I agree on #1 and #2 but not on #3. I used to run computer training for people who'd never used a computer before, and I'd say the majority were not very adventurous (a few dived in). I think there's a sense that computers are valuable and
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by zipdog 15y ago
I like this, but sometimes you want to defrost something for 15 minutes. I think a [plus 5 min] button would be nicer than hitting a button 30 times
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by zipdog 15y ago
What bugs me is not the mis-encoding (though that's a fail), but that people "struggled to understand" it... surely everyone's seen apostrophes turn into these special characters on enough web pages over the past ten years to have recognize
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by zipdog 15y ago
The paper was likely to go into freefall, with major advertisers dropping it in recent days, and the readership likely to drop sharply. It will be interesting to see whether killing the paper makes the phone hacking story go away (or at lea
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by zipdog 15y ago
There was a multi-million dollar contract in Japan a few years ago decided by a single hand of Rock Paper Scissors.
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by zipdog 15y ago
The bid was on Thu 6/28 as well (Tau day)
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by zipdog 15y ago
The letter reminds me of larger companies I've worked for, where it felt clear to us in the lower levels some of what needed to be done, that moral was sliding, and that plenty of people with ideas and talents were not being utilized. Its r
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by zipdog 15y ago
>If the private sector wants a surplus you have to have a government debt. This seems to ignore the ability to add value. The sum of material possessions is determined by the amount the market would be willing to pay, but the market doe

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