Chinese schoolchildren during lessons at a classroom in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, in 2010. I loved this piece from NPR from November 2012. Whether you have kids or not, this makes a lot of sense.
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NPR on learning: struggle for smarts? How Eastern and Western cultures tackle learning
Playing doctor: from Google searches to vitamin d
Someone will tell me their symptoms and I will come back after 2 minutes and tell them what my diagnosis is for them. I went to a doctor here in the Bay Area a few years ago at a local clinic, but before I did, I made sure to Google and Yelp for reviews. He then sat down and asked if he minded if he drank a 5-Hour Energy and then pounded it right in front of me. I asked, "aren't those bad for you?" He then said,…
Donny Deutsch: often wrong, never in doubt
Unleash the Business Rebel Within by Donny Deutsch Source: Amazon.com I'm trying to burn through my stack of library books and wanted to recommend one of my latest reads called Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within by Donny Deutsch. Every time I go to the library I always bee-line to the Computer Science section first, quickly followed by Business (just like my pursuit of education, both in those fields). I don't think there are a lot of new concepts in the book but the…
Who would want to be normal?
How rejecting conformity can transform your work from ordinary to extraordinary Mini Cooper's "Not Normal" campaign celebrates the power of breaking free from convention Last week, during a meeting about our 2013 initiatives, I found myself expressing frustration with the tendency to do things "the way they've always been done." This led me to share a Mini Cooper advertisement I'd recently discovered—a video that has since become something of an inspiration for our team. In fact, it's sparked a new catchphrase around the office, with colleagues dismissing conventional…
Web hosting in 1997
Unearthing web files from 1997 on forgotten floppy disks I finally decided to throw out all my old floppy disks after cleaning out a closet last weekend. Before I threw them out, I had to go through them all to see if there were still any files left on the disks. To my surprise, there were still a few files I found which was like going back in time. A web hosting research page from 1997 saved on a 3.5" floppy disk. Notice the placeholders for the IE4…
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