Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Productivity And The Education Delusion | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  There is a constant tension about education in labor economics these days. On one hand, education is strongly correlated with income and employability. Workers with college degrees, or even just some university-le…

• Antisocial networks: how to avoid Facebook friends and irritate people [theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Think that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and their ilk are out of control, and you would like to regain some of the privacy you once enjoyed? Help may be at hand in the form of “antisocial networking” – a clutch of new apps and websites designed to…

• The real threat to Europe isn’t a fascist revival, it’s the end of politics | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  If there is a single overarching tendency to emerge from the European polls it is therefore not the widely taunted “revival of fascism,” but rather a withering of the traditional “left versus right” distinction amongst political part…

• How to Conquer the Tipping Point in Employee Engagement (INFOGRAPHIC) [theundercoverrecruiter.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

   

  How to Conquer the Tipping Point in Employee Engagement [INFOGRAPHIC].

  Filed under: Employee, engagement, people, work Tagged: employee, Engagement, work

• Economie du partage et amitié ne font pas bon ménage – leJDD.fr

  Airbnb ou KissKissBankBank peuvent-ils nuire à nos amitiés?http://t.co/h8UleNmCsH

• Is Internal Crowdfunding in the Enterprise Set to Take Off? [resultsfromcrowds.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  A number of companies are experimenting with internal crowdfunding.  This has the potential to be a successful way to spark innovation and evaluate employee-generated ideas.

  Given the attention that crowdfunding and Kickstarter have had in the me…

• Tech Titans on Income Inequality and Their “Stingy, Stingy” Industry [recode.net] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Marc Benioff, the philanthropist and billionaire founder of Salesforce, may have been the angriest man at last week’s Code Conference, held at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

  Onstage, Benioff launched into a fervent monologue, …

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