Friday, January 25, 2008

Boredom, Getting Stuff Done, Life, Senior, Soap and Capitalism

6 Effective Ways to Combat Boredom!
WHY is the vast majority of content which becomes “popular” on social networking platforms (like Digg, Stumble and Propeller) inherently negative, fear-inducing and purpose-less in nature?

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done
from ZenHabits

London's French Foreign Legion Shuns Sarkozy Plea to Come Home
from Bloomberg.com

CCM Magazine transitions to online-only format
Nashville Business Journal

Custom-Building a Life
BusinessWeek . . .Jeff Weinstein's burger joint has taken off, but he has struggled to balance life and the job. Then he hit on a work-in-progress solution.

More employers seek out seniors
MSNBC Growing list of companies see benefits of hiring people 50 and up

Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley
Now it's getting fun...
Massive fraud by a rogue trader at Societe Generale SA has led to a €4.9 billion ($7.16 billion) [loss]...
both from Mark Andreessen's blog BLOG.PHARMA.com

Why Some People Are Happier Than Others
from BeliefNet

P&G: Using the Past to Invent the Future
in BusinessWeek: In this excerpt from Roger Martin's new book, he discusses how P&G's A.G. Lafley balanced experience

from BoingBoing: Mathematics of waiting for the bus

CBS Adds On-Demand Music To Last.fm
from Forbes.com

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
from cdnet

BusinessWeek Tech: Let Us Serve You
Web services are now so cheap and plentiful you may never buy software again

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