Shit my dad says – Justin Halpern
“Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking.”
HILARIOUS!
Just get it.
Link:
Buy it here (Amazon – cheapest)
“Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking.”
HILARIOUS!
Just get it.
Link:
Buy it here (Amazon – cheapest)
Descartes contributed so much that the French decided to just call it a day and never contribute anything else to society ever again, and they never have.
Making Roasted Duck, Potatoes, and Salad. Beautifully shot.
Cooking Dinner Vol. I from William Hereford on Vimeo.
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.
This guy animates the talk. Very worthwhile 10 minutes.
Copy + Paste from somewhere on the internet.
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
Start marinating the fish for this dish at least two hours before you plan to serve it.
Mix first 4 ingredients in shallow baking dish. Add fish and turn to coat. Cover dish tightly and refrigerate 2 to 4 hours.
Preheat broiler.
Remove fish from marinade. Broil until just opaque in center, about 3 minutes per side.
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
Funny and smart talks are my thing.
Excerpt form Adam Bryant’s interview with Barbara Krumseik of the Calvert Group Ltd:
…I think the key is that people who work for me honestly believe that there is going to be a win-win here. I’ll bring it back to my obstacle-course analogy. I believe that the whole career ladder concept is a very disruptive concept because what does it suggest? You can’t get past the person ahead of you unless you push them off the ladder. It promotes aggressive behavior.
When you think of an obstacle course, there are a lot of people on the obstacle course at the same time, and my success doesn’t impede your success. And I may be able to take a minute and help you over that next obstacle and still get where I want to get to.
I also think you have to be a little humble. You have to be maybe a little bit overly confident to break into new things, but a little bit overly humble about what you don’t know, and admiring of the talents different people bring to the table.
Link:
Corner Office: It’s Not a Career Ladder, It’s an Obstacle Course, New York Times, 5/21/10.
Another fun talk from TED…
Entertaining 16 minutes 40 seconds…
i just picked up a print of one of JR’s seminal works to hang on my wall, The Holy Tryptich. It’s smart, it gels with my outlook on life, and it puts a smile on my face – i adore this kind of art.
The message is clear: Regardless of religious and political affiliation, we are all the same.
Copy + Paste from Bloomberg (my highlights in blue):
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
“They’ve essentially been the survivors in the system, a very difficult system where 95 percent of people lose money,” the 30-year-old Adams, who plays at the site, said in a telephone interview. “Anyone smart enough and disciplined enough to survive that system is probably going to do very well in the trading world.”
An increasing number of hedge funds and brokerages are scrutinizing professional poker to find talent and analytical tools, according to financial recruiters including Options Group, a New York-based executive-search company. Susquehanna International Group LLP, the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based options and equity trading company, uses poker to teach strategic thinking. … Continue Reading
