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  • "Plenty of brands are in trouble right now because they're not sure if they represent Luxury or Premium products."
  • "the Obama plan dilutes the company’s focus. Instead of thinking obsessively about profitability and quality, G.M. will also have to meet the administration’s environmental goals. There is no evidence G.M. is good at building the sort of small cars the administration demands. There is no evidence that there is a large American market for these cars. But G.M. now has to serve two masters, the market and the administration’s policy goals."

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  • The music video for the song 'Alice', an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'.

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  • when technology doesn't live up to our expectations, we just have to accept that "you know what, this is as good as it is right now"
    (tags: video funny)

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  • Rather than setting concrete targets, we should aim to set learning goals. A learning goal is where someone pledges to come up with, for example, five approaches to a thorny problem - rather than a performance goal that assumes that the problem will automatically be solved. "How can I X....not just X".
    (tags: quotes howto)

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  • The notion of speaking openly, honestly and objectively about work is inherent to learning how to be a better X...."This is why art, film and architecture have achieved such great heights in our society: those art forms are economically robust enough to support a vibrant critical class."

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  • some of the best writing I've seen so far on the current financial crisis. Long read, but well worth it.
  • 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt by the time they have been retired for two years, because of joblessness or divorce. An estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement.

    Relatives are not the only ones foolishly trusted with athletes' money. One up-and-coming guard in the NBA allows his entire fortune to be managed by his former AAU coach, who has the player's power of attorney.

    By common estimates among athletes and agents, the divorce rate for pro athletes ranges from 60% to 80%.



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  • start about a 1:30 seconds into the video
    (tags: music video funny)
  • "Think about your job. Can you write out, concretely, what you would have to do to be a failure at it? If you can't then maybe you don't really do anything. Or, think about something you have faith in or hold in high esteem. Can you articulate, exactly, what would have to happen for it to lose your respect? If you can't, maybe it's closer to worshiping than believing."
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  • A good strategy is to remove as many elements from its life as possible — to ‘take it easy for a while’. This reduction of activity lowers the overall noise levels of the nervous system, so it’s easier to ‘hear oneself think’. The calm brain can now spend its precious calories on analysis of its own operation, instead of on outward-facing behavior and the feedback it produces...Its range of potential behavior will have expanded, because it can now choose to do (or not do) the things it was previously doing automatically.
  • "Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall" - Ray Bradbury
    (tags: quotes career)

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  • Despite our brand, reach, and market share, however, we failed to recognize the awesome power of the new search business. Whether this failure was the result of an obsession with more traditional forms of media, the distraction of trying to survive the f

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  • VC-derived marketing budgets at launch don't help if the service isn't addictive. And if the service is addictive, spending marketing money at launch will not contribute to your success. You'll spend it on the wrong things as your users' passions will sur

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  • Flickr continues to impress with a really slick implementation of this Camera Finder. Like a photo? See what camera was used to take it and what others are saying about it, and how usage is trending over time. It just works, and it works great.
  • If anyone has figured out the drawbacks of Google's new transferable option plan, please weigh in, because at first glance it looks like a win all around. (Which begs the Q: Why haven't other companies done this and why does Google seem to be the only Val

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