May 2012
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Angelo Badalamenti tells and plays the story of...
April 2012
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March 2012
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“In life, immediate negativity is an anti-social and unpleasant trait to boast....”
– One37 (Matt Alexander)
February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchThe death of information - an amazing work by Michael Rigley
Google, what were you thinking?
“I did not expect to find a human-powered, systematic, months-long, fraudulent (falsely claiming to be collaborating with us, and worse) attempt to undermine our business, being perpetrated from call centres on 2 continents.”
Stefan Magdalinski, CEO of Mocality, on catching Google in the act of stealing his company’s data.
“Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of...”
– Excerpted from Steve Denning’s recent article in Forbes: The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Despite the clear evidence of Avastin’s lack of efficacy in treating breast...”
– Why Doesn’t No Mean No? - NYTimes.com
“Understand your users. That’s the key. The essential task in a startup is...”
– Startups in 13 Sentences, by Paul Graham
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around...”
– Cities and Ambition, by Paul Graham
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WatchSome scientists think this epoch of human influence deserves its own geologic name, like the Pliestocene or the Pliocene. In 2000, the Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen proposed calling it the Anthropocene. Next summer, the International Commission on Stratigraphy may make that label official.
Meanwhile, Globaïa, an educational organization that aims, among other things, to promote “a better...
October 2011
5 posts
Paul Allen: The Singularity Ain't Near
The foregoing points at a basic issue with how quickly a scientifically adequate account of human intelligence can be developed. We call this issue the complexity brake. As we go deeper and deeper in our understanding of natural systems, we typically find that we require more and more specialized knowledge to characterize them, and we are forced to continuously expand our scientific theories in...
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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