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The Sharing Economy And The Future Of Finance | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on TechCrunch:
Editor’s Note: Christopher O. Hernæs is Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Analysis of SpareBank 1 Group, Norway’s second largest financialinstitution. He was previously a partner at Core Group, where he w…
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Two-thirds of cancers a matter of bad luck? Not so fast | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on Quartz:
“Two thirds of cancers are due to bad luck,” or some variation of this, is the cancer-related headline of the moment.
It comes from a newly published paper in the journal Science. The study, by Bert Vogelstein and Cr…
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10 pieces of tech speak we should trash in 2015 | Things I grab, motley collection
plerudulier:
glad to read that ‘disruption’ is one of them.
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Time to circle back, tear down silos and pivot on those deliverables: 2014 was a banner year for the tech industry — at least when it came to spouting jarg…
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Everything I own fits in my backpack—this is how I do it | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on Quartz:
About two or three years ago, I decided I wanted to start to declutter my life gradually. I count the following things as my belongings at this point:
6 t-shirts;
2 sweaters, 2 hoodies;
1 coat;
2 pairs of dress-pa…
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Why even engineers think working from home is a bad idea | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on Quartz:
It seems intuitive that engineers and computer scientists would prefer working from home, since tasks like writing complex computer code require intense, solitary focus. But a debate started on Y Combinator’s Hacker N…
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Uber and Airbnb have undergone regulatory setbacks lately. But as regulators continue to crack the whip, there is little sign they will be able to stem the tide of popularity for these sharing services. Should the very idea of regulation evolve? I…
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Why we need creative confidence | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on ideas.ted.com:
In 2012, IDEO founder and longtime Stanford professor David Kelley took the TED stage in Long Beach and shared a deeply personal story. It was the tale of his own cancer diagnosis, of finding a lump in his neck…
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For generations, office kitchens were hidden out of sight, an unloved necessity kept stark to ensure that workers didn’t linger.
Now some companies are seeing office kitchens in a new light, turning them into gathering showplaces intended to boos…
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About six out of 10 working Americans surveyed recently consider email “very important” to their jobs, making it the most critical digital tool in the American workplace today, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. About a quarte…
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The Anatomy of a New Year’s Resolution | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on TIME:
Many of us who have used this time of year to turn our bodies around have fallen into the same cycle of failure: We’re frustrated with our size or weight, we vow that this is the year of skinny jeans, and we promise to …
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Good Riddance To Social Search | Things I grab, motley collection
Originally posted on TechCrunch:
Remember how not too long ago the future of search — at least according to the big search engines — was social search? Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find any mention of social search on Google or Bing (let alone…
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The Scoreboards Where You Can’t See Your Score • ©[NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection
The characters in Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story” inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.
Consider the protagonist, Lenny Abramov, age 39. A digital dossier about him accumulates his every health condition (high …
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