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Excerpt: Image via Wikipedia Alisa Miller’s entry in Seth Godin’s new eBook caught my attention (pg 34). In the entry, and a TED presentation, she talks about the abysmal state of global news coverage by the US press corps. Anybody who’s ever been subjected to around-the-clock styled American news programs can nod at the following. Too often, American commercial news is myopic and inwardly focused. This leads to a severe lack of global news. And increasingly, a shortage of “enterprise journalism” – journalistic depth built over time through original sources – that provides the context and enables thoughtful …
The Multi-Tasker
A brain dump at the intersection of technology (which we all use everyday), work and entrepreneurship (which most of us spend most of our working hours at), and mind. Then I write it all down.
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Excerpt: Great dialectic, in case you ever need to fend off a case of late-stage platonic advances from your whipping sidekick/ non-boyfriend. I mean, sure, we could go on some dates, maybe mess around a little and finally validate the six years you’ve spent languishing in this platonic nightmare, but then what? How could we ever go back to the way we were, where I take advantage of your clear attraction to me so I can have someone at my beck and call? That part of our friendship means so much to me.No. We are just destined to be really, really good…
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Excerpt: For a lot of us, the decision of what course or specialty to follow usually got made when we were still teens. However well calculated or arbitrary they might have been, they often set us on a somewhat deterministic path in life. With time, we discover more of who we are, what we like, and what our strengths and weaknesses are. Those later stage discoveries either reinforce the choices we had made earlier, or come into conflict with whom we had grown to become. Much of the existential angst for young adults centre around the issue of what to do…
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Excerpt: You think I’m advocating sexual abstinence. No. Let me explain. When I was 18, I wanted to be older so desperately. For some of the reasons that everyone can relate to, and others that were unique to me (or not, as I found out later). I wanted independence. For me, that involved getting my parents out of my hair, and gaining freedom. There was no doubt in my mind that becoming older was the panacea to all my problems. Ha Ha. And Ha. The word “freedom” is probably the second most misconstrued word in history, shortly trailing “love”. Just like there…
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Excerpt: Nobody’s watching you! At least not all the time. I wish I knew this when I was 18, because life would’ve been so much more chill. In fact, there are lots of things I wish I knew when I was 18, but nobody told me, or I just didn’t listen. So a while ago, I wrote about what I wish I knew if I was 18 again, the first being that smartness isn’t really envy-worthy. It generated a bit of discussion. Easily encouraged, I decided to follow up with this. I’m told that kids grow up hell of a lot faster these days,…
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Excerpt: Armed with technology, globalization changed the way of life for many of us in a shocking span of time. The way we work, live, communicate, learn, has been completely transformed. Learning has undoubted changed too. But how will this change impact the way we value education and knowledge-based work going forward? In the past few years, more and more educational materials have moved off of campus firewalls, and onto the web for all to consume. We are talking about entire course curriculum, reading list, lecture notes and videos. When the accessibility of information is no longer constrained, and the cost…
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Excerpt: I am across-the-board average by all accounts, so I used to seriously envy the smart kids. Why smartness? Because I became convinced early on that having great body parts doesn’t translate into long-lasting success in the real world. Adding to the delusion, I was TV-schooled during the Dawson’s Creek, Popular and Felicity era. The general take-away was that looks were only worth celebrating when it played supplement to a brooding yet brilliant mind. So you can imagine my seizure when I discovered in the real world, intelligence held only a fleeting chance at success when challenged by obstacles such as…
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Excerpt: Welcome Gen-X readers, and thank you for visiting my blog. I write about investing, macro-economics, society, culture, career, and any other ideas and thoughts I have from my own experiences. Some samples are available here. If you enjoy my posts, then please consider subscribing to the RSS feed and spread the word, I would love to hear from you! Here are some places to start that will give you a taste of this blog: More on the Recession What are high profile economists saying about 2009? Hear from Roubini, Taleb, Faber, Rogers, Schiff, Coxe, and more. Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the…
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Excerpt: The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace [via The Big Picture] The populist pitch-forking movement has duly commenced, and fingers are pointed in all directions. In a classic case of pot calling the…
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Excerpt: If I was eighteen, and clueless about what I wanted to do with my life, I would do business school all over again. I’m not eighteen anymore, so I would not go back to business school. Not when there are many other ways of learning out there. 1. I’m not fit to give you any business advice A couple of months ago, a friend of mine headed back to school in a remote community in interior BC. She wrote to me, excitedly about her new surroundings. She was also excited about a business idea she’s had: the campus was set up miles away…
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Excerpt: It’s been a month since the Investoralist officially kicked off, and I thought I’d briefly pause and write about what I’ve learned so far. Granted, a month is barely a blip, and some of the musings may seem pretty amateur to bloggers that have been labouring in this medium for years. But hey, this is the Internet, everyone gets their piece. And there’s hardly anything that I can do to prevent you from clicking away. So off I go. The need to provide value. Before I enrolled in politics – that was my choice for graduate studies, I was interested in…
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Excerpt: I’ve felt ambiguous and conflicted about education for a long time, because it inspires while it stifles. But here are two ways it has always resonated with me. One is learning for learning’s sake. Now looking back, and without sounding nauseatingly cheesy, there is something pure and unadulterated in the joy of soaking in the world. I was never a science person. But I still remember in Grade 11, the excitement I felt bubbling from my belly, when trying to explain to my mom the idea of atmospheric pressure and rain formation and somehow likening it to the pan…
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