Category Archives: Intelligence

$75,000 a year is the optimal annual salary to impact happiness. For North Americans, at least. More than that, you worry too much about money. Less than that, you worry about not having enough. Money can purchase the symbols of happiness and success, but not the causes of serenity and contentment. Brain Pickings has a [...]

Q: What are you doing to combat piracy? A: One of the things is we get ISPs to publicise their connection speeds – and when we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So, I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are [...]

Procter & Gamble’s “legendary” One Page Memo. A very effective tool - a document structure that is designed to sell, but written the way the reader wants to get the information, therefore making it easy to understand. 1. The Idea. What are you proposing? This is typically one sentence. Consider: What am I, as the reader or approver, [...]

It’s fairly agreed that education is based on an outdated, “factory” model – you go in at 7 and come out at 18, apparently as well rounded individuals. If you fail at one stage of the pipeline, you are put back to the beginning of that stage, hoping a better result will emerge second time [...]

I must study Politics and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelain. —John Adams on Family, Responsibility and Sacrifice.

This Wall Street Journal article, entitled “Your Employee Is An Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do?” offers some interesting thoughts on a distinctly modern problem. It would be easy to solve if the employee blogged out of hours, or distinctly from their day-to-day job, but as soon as there is cross over (ad-revenue generated [...]