September 2011
16 posts
“Hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that...”
– Wikipedia
Nonconscious Leadership
http://bit.ly/b0bk30
A student of the leadership literature would never suspect that at the same time that Weber was codifying the tenets of rationalist bureaucracy, Freud was forcing all of us in the West to examine the power of the unconscious. This despite the near universality of our organizational experience: we all have worked for someone whose emotional “complexities”...
bad startups
There are a lot of startups that monetize enabling the bored and wealthy to refine their competition for social status through conspicuous consumption. These startups add nothing to society. In fact, they detract from it by diverting more of our world’s scarce resources towards a zero-sum game. Meanwhile, the economy is going to hell. Which means people are suffering and dying.
If you...
“Although not insensitive to respondent’s concern that the term miracle is...”
– Jay Norris, 91 F.T.C. 751, 847 n.20 (1978)
What did programmers do before there was... →
“Is this as good as it gets, I wondered? Not every good thing in life was...”
– The Geranium Farm, via Susan Benthall
“Most networkers think of individual persons as being embedded in networks that...”
– Hanneman, Introduction to Social Network Methods
“In 1947, Carasso achieved a major breakthrough with the introduction of the...”
– Marquis et al., The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Responsibility 