February 2011
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Feb 1st
January 2011
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Always the biggest? →
” … But perhaps it’s better to think of it in terms of Britain rather than China. Was the economic rise of the United States, in the end, bad for Britain? Or France? I don’t think so. We’ve invented a host of products, medicines and technologies that have made their lives immeasurably better, not to mention measurably longer. We’re a huge and important trading...
Jan 31st
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Sasha Dichter on 2011 →
“… there’s a tendency to put this type of work into one box or the other. One of the big challenges has been what we mean by our space, and going back to the discussion of creating metrics, what do we think success really looks like for this sector? There’s a big difference in success for those who are creating a large-scale business that will affect as many poor people as...
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Shiny Lazy People  →
“How can he be unaware of these things? The only explanation I have is intellectual laziness — why check the facts when you already believe that you have The Truth?”
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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An Open Letter  →
” … What’s “defining” about The Social Network is the way it shows a generation losing touch with its humanity. The satire in Sorkin’s script isn’t aimed at what you call the “cool kids,” the “creative, non-narcissistic” users of the Internet who don’t use “friend” as a verb. They are in the minority. Who’s...
Jan 28th
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech analyzed by Nancy Duarte (by Duarte Design)
Jan 28th
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Google display ads in Gmail →
” … This little trial does seem to be taking place on a very limited basis, which is why there’s been no outrage since it began last Friday. Let’s just hope that the Google Display Network that’s responsible for these pictomercials thinks better of it and leaves our Gmails alone. We’d hate to have to leave the beautiful web for some impersonal mail-serving...
Jan 28th
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Distraction →
” … The other trouble is that it’s so easy to get knocked out of the zone. Noise, phone calls, going out for lunch, having to drive 5 minutes to Starbucks for coffee, and interruptions by coworkers — ESPECIALLY interruptions by coworkers — all knock you out of the zone. If you take a 1 minute interruption by a coworker asking you a question, and this knocks out your...
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Growth  →
” … Humankind is in a box. For the 2.7 billion people now living on less than $2 a day, economic growth is essential to satisfying the most basic requirements of human dignity. And in much wealthier societies, people need growth to pay off their debts, support liberty, and maintain civil peace. To produce and sustain this growth, they must expend vast amounts of energy. Yet our best...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Rich vs. Poor →
” … Together, Slim, Gates, Buffett, and Ambani control more wealth than the world’s poorest 57 countries. The danger is that while we have a global economy that knows how to concentrate money and power in an ever smaller set of hands, we have no robust mechanism to alert us to the injustice, dangers, and instability that come along with this package. Someday, to our peril, the...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Hijacking Power and Bandwidth from the Mobile Phone’s Audio Interface - Integrated Prototype (by Thomas Schmid) “We endow the digital mobile phone with an analog interface that can parasitically power external peripherals and transfer data to and from them using the existing headset interface. Our design delivers several milliwatts at 3 V to a load and offers a bidirectional...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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History and Peace →
“… Because accepting the other side’s narrative amounts to destroying your own, there can be no compromise.”
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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7 days? →
Can we have a view with 7 days instead of 5? “Regrettably, no. We here at TeuxDeux Headquarters want you to watch happily as that workweek ticks away. Then when the weekend comes soak up all the fun. Your tasks for the weekend should generally only be things like: “Drink Lemonade in a Hammock” or “Take 3 Naps” or “Hit the Beach”.”
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Crosshairs and Targets →
“I want to reiterate this: if politicians deny their negative rhetoric can cause harm, what are we to think of their positive rhetoric?”
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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7 days? →
Can we have a view with 7 days instead of 5? “Regrettably, no. We here at TeuxDeux Headquarters want you to watch happily as that workweek ticks away. Then when the weekend comes soak up all the fun. Your tasks for the weekend should generally only be things like: “Drink Lemonade in a Hammock” or “Take 3 Naps” or “Hit the Beach”.”
Jan 16th
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Crosshairs and Targets →
“I want to reiterate this: if politicians deny their negative rhetoric can cause harm, what are we to think of their positive rhetoric?”
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th