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  • Quotes from Steve Jobs

    12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day Zoe B, lifehack.org Steve Jobs was not just a vision­ary genius, but a man with an incred­i­ble pas­sion for inno­va­tion, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his…

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  • Goodbye to the information age, hello to the hybrid

    Parag Khanna: ‘So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age’ By Parag Khanna, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/LPJvj Related articles Make room…

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  • David Byrne: ethnomusicologist and data pioneer

    David Byrne By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/X9j9P Related articles This David Byrne Interview With Himself Is The Weirdest…

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  • Marcin Jakubowski is building the DIY machines for a new civilization

    Open-source blueprints for a modern off-the-grid civilization By Aaron Souppouris, theverge.com Marcin Jakubows­ki dreams of liv­ing off the grid. Over the past few years, he’s been work­ing on a set of 50 machines he believes nec­es­sary to found and sus­tain an inde­pen­dent, mod­ern com­mu­ni­ty. He wants to “take every­thing that… http://flpbd.it/XhbyO Related articles What If…

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  • NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT

    New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Accel­er­a­tors and incu­ba­tors have been pop­ping up left and right over the last few years, becom­ing, as Peter Relan recent­ly put it, “an indus­try seg­ment in their own right.” And while that indus­try seg­ment has become more…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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  • Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them

    Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them” Rip Empson, techcrunch.com If you get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to hear Clay­ton Chris­tensen hold court, seize it. Chris­tensen is a Har­vard Busi­ness School pro­fes­sor and renowned author and inno­va­tion expert, per­haps best known for his book “The Inno­va­tor’s Dilemma,” wh… http://flpbd.it/vxutu Related articles Turning openness into…

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  • Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet

    Late Environmentalist Barry Commoner On How Biology-Based Tech Could Save The Planet By Rose Pastore, popsci.com From the archives: The “Paul Revere of ecology” sounded early warnings about the polluting effects of manmade products in 1972. Barry Com­mon­er, the scientist-activist who found­ed mod­ern ecol­o­gy and helped ban above-ground nuclear test­ing,… http://flpbd.it/rPUAD Related articles Must See…

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  • 7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

    7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com Related articles Afghan president orders US forces out of key province – NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com) Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 – Reuters (reuters.com)

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  • 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career

    4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough ques­tion: If cor­po­rate poli­cies and prac­tices in tal­ent man­age­ment and suc­ces­sion plan­ning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…

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