Wesley Anderson.

"Good times breed bad habits. Bad times breed good habits."

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:19:00 +0100

“Good times breed bad habits. Bad times breed good habits.”

- Drayton Bird (via Perry Marshall)

Quieting the Lizard Brain “What you do for a living is not...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:44:04 +0100

Quieting the Lizard Brain

“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is [get projects finished],” says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. (via a comment somewhere on Perry Marshall’s blog about slowing down in order to be more productive)

Corporate Turf Wars (is there another way?)

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:57:00 +0100

A lot of companies are set up with departments. So it’s sort of like, OK, you have the design department here and you have the programmers here and you got the IAs and you got the project managers. And while they all work on the same thing, they also have their own sort of turf, you know. So people are really protective about “Oh you can’t do that because that’s my job. I have to do the HTML. You just do the Photoshop, and tell me where this should go and I’ll do it.”

But at 37signals, it’s sort of like the lines are blurred.

Lots more good stuff in this 37signals Podcast

By Matt Stuart (via Street Photography and Flipbac)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:29:00 +0000

By Matt Stuart (via Street Photography and Flipbac)

Money can buy happiness… but not in the way you’d think

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:53:13 +0000

Money can buy happiness… but not in the way you’d think

Giving handouts to Africans is harming not helpingIn this...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:44:51 +0000

Giving handouts to Africans is harming not helping

In this provocative TED talk, Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to take a completely new look at the “African question” — to look beyond the media’s stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

Rodrigo and Gabriela rock!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:11:22 +0000

Rodrigo and Gabriela rock!

Inside The Great American Bubble Machine

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:02:59 +0100

Inside The Great American Bubble Machine:

Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.

Been scammed? Blame it on THOMAS

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:58:00 +0100

Been scammed? Blame it on THOMAS

For Best Results, Forget the Bonus

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:57:53 +0100

For Best Results, Forget the Bonus:

While rewards are effective at producing temporary compliance, they are strikingly ineffective at producing lasting changes in attitudes or behavior. The news gets worse. About two dozen studies from the field of social psychology conclusively show that people who expect to receive a reward do not perform as well as those who expect nothing. This result, which holds for all sorts of rewards, people and tasks, is most dramatic when creativity is involved.