Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans – Knowledge@Wharton
“Economic life gets stronger not with bailouts, but with bankruptcies.
Evolution works not with bailouts — there are no bailouts in nature —
but with competition and natural selection.”
Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the Phone – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
Great podcast. I may be biased so here are my disclaimers:
Diabetes diet – type 2: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
I’m not diabetic but I have a strong family history of the disease so I try to eat like a diabetic.
Well, most of the time.
The Six Secrets to a Bulletproof Career – Guest Blog Post by Andrew Neitlich | paulacaligiuri.com
Check out this blog post.
Information Arbitrage – Preparing for and adapting to tomorrow’s world
Read Think Apply Plan Act.
(hat tip abnormalreturns.com)
Get Your Goals Back on Track – Heidi Grant Halvorson – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
I think it’s important to distinguish between specificity and inflexibility. While I can’t think of a single study where specificity hurt performance, I can think of many where a dogged insistence on staying the original course proved harmful. People need to be able to respond to changing conditions. So one qualification might be “clarity is helpful when it does not rule out flexibility and responsiveness.”
Second, I think a lack of specificity at the organizational level isn’t quite the same thing as a lack at the individual level. Even in the instances you mentioned, the individual employees probably had some specific shorter-term goals they set for themselves. If you are trying out different strategies and exploring possibilities, you still benefit from having a clear idea what “successful” looks like, so you’ll know when a strategy is promising and when to switch to something else.
Why Is The US Taxpayer Subsidizing Facebook – And The Next Bubble? « The Baseline Scenario
If you don’t care about Facebook you will after reading this excellent article.
The slow yet steady shift from dead tree to digital versions of books is fascinating. One of my holiday presents was a Kindle. I have joined the movement.
Last year was a disappointing year in my personal book reading. I read just 30 books in 2010. The reason was simple to deduce. I spent too much time doing other things (like working).
And in recognition of the new reality I am not increasing my effort to meet my goal of reading a book a week. I’ve decided to approach this situation with more intelligence than I have in the past. Yes, I’m setting the bar lower.
Read a Book a Week is now Read a Book Every Other Week.
26 books this year should be doable, no?
Low-Carbohydrate Diets and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality — Ann Intern Med
Conclusion: A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.
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