Here's 30 years of experience for you:1. Few business problems can't be solved by more sales.2. Cut expenses when the storm is approaching, not when you're soaking wet.3. You can't eat assets or inventory. Don't get emotional about what you own, only about your cash balances.4. Banks are your friend only when you don't need … Continue reading Hacker News: Important Non-Obvious Business Lessons
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Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art
"In this course, [Data illustrator Sonja Kuijpers] gives you the tools you need to transform data into captivating illustrations using colors, shapes, and images. Discover how to collect and analyze data sets, as well as how to transform them into a unique poster that tells a story. Are you ready to create your own data … Continue reading Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art
Hockney On Photography
6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
"The fastest, easiest and most inadvertent technique for messing up one’s life remains that of getting into a serious relationship with the wrong person: with very little effort, and without any innate taste for catastrophe, one can end up – by middle age or earlier – contemplating wholesale financial ruin, loss of parental rights, social … Continue reading 6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
CS Unplugged
"Computer science without the computer." https://csunplugged.org/en/ Website aimed at teaching computer science principles to children 5-14 years old.
Out to Get You
"There are four responses to Out to Get You. You can Get Gone. Walk away. Breathe a sigh of relief. You can Get Got. Give the thing everything it wants. Pay up, relax, enjoy the show. You can Get Compact. Find a rule limiting what ‘everything it wants’ means in context. Then Get Got, relax … Continue reading Out to Get You
John Cleese on Monty Python and Political Correctness
"What are you working on now? I have a show I’m working on at the moment called Why There Is No Hope. Sounds funny. It is funny. Some people immediately see the title as funny and other people go what?! There is no hope that we’ll ever live in a rational, kind, intelligent society. To … Continue reading John Cleese on Monty Python and Political Correctness
Dinosaur Comics – August 30th, 2017 – Nice Manners
Nice Manners.
The ‘Busy’ Trap
"...but I did make a conscious decision, a long time ago, to choose time over money, since I’ve always understood that the best investment of my limited time on earth was to spend it with people I love. I suppose it’s possible I’ll lie on my deathbed regretting that I didn’t work harder and say … Continue reading The ‘Busy’ Trap
A Heart That Watches and Receives
"Whatever you do, wherever you go, I want to encourage you to seek out an authentic experience. There’s far too much secondary living, virtual living, simulated living, going on these days. As we’ve been discussing, too often life comes to us mediated through earbuds and screens and viewfinders. I don’t mean to sound like a … Continue reading A Heart That Watches and Receives
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