Again from the: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department. Rent a White Guy – Magazine – The Atlantic “I call these things ‘White Guy in a Tie’ events,” a Canadian friend of a friend named Jake told me during the recruitment pitch he gave me in Beijing, where I live. “Basically, you put on a [...]
May 12, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Can’t you do both? MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs: Who Has the Right Stuff for Tough Times? – Bill Taylor – HarvardBusiness.org “Causal reasoning is based on the logic, To the extent that we can predict the future, we can control it,” she writes. That’s why MBAs and big companies spend so much time on focus groups, [...]
April 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I swear this was my answer the first time I heard the question: Round Manhole Covers, or: If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft :: hebig.org/blog Q: Why are manhole covers round? A: We have to look at what is under the cover to answer that question. The hole below the cover is round [...]
January 27, 2009
Cover of Working from Home Geeks in Boston » Working from Home: Why It Sucks I don’t know how people work from home. I find it infinitely distracting and I agree with the author that the lack of real time, face to face feedback is down right depressing and demotivating. tags: geeks, work, hyper Posted from Diigo. The rest [...]
June 15, 2010
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