On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”

On “Geek” Versus “Nerd” | Slackpropagation"… ConclusionIn broad strokes, it seems to me that geeky words are more about stuff (e.g., “#stuff”), while nerdy words are more about ideas (e.g., “hypothesis”). Geeks are fans, and fans collect stuff; nerds are practitioners, and practitioners play with ideas. Of course, geeks can collect ideas and nerds play with [...]

Top Billionaire Art Collectors – Business Insider

Top Billionaire Art Collectors - Business Insider#10 Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr, CEO de Advance Publications (Condé Nast entre otras)#9 Leon Black, fundador de Apollo Global Management#8 Doris F Fisher, empezó The Gap#7 Norman L Braman, distribuidor de coches#6 Nasser David Khalili, magnate de las propiedades#5 François Pinault, CEO de PPR, lo que era Pinault-Printemps-Redout#4 Boris [...]

Ideas sobre información, conocimiento y educación; @dreig

"… en cuanto al dilema de si el profesor tiene que ser experto o no en tecnología, lo que tengo cada vez más claro es que en lo que tiene que ser experto es en su materia. …"El pulpo que vive en los árboles (o la diferencia entre información y conocimiento) | El caparazon:"… aprender [...]

Minimalizar el Consumo no es lo mismo que Minimizarlo | Mínimum Opus

Minimalizar el Consumo no es lo mismo que Minimizarlo | Mínimum Opus"… De poco sirven los experimentos de los cien objetos, los ejercicios de mindfulness, aprender a manejar la avalancha informativa, o cualquier otra técnica de las que tanto hablamos en la blogsfera minimalista si la mayor parte del día la pasas sentado en un cubículo [...]

Why Pay More? “conspicuous consumption”

In his classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class", published in 1899, he argued that once the basis of social status became wealth itself – rather than, say, wisdom, knowledge, moral integrity, or skill in battle – the rich needed to find ways of spending money that had no other objective than the display of [...]

To Attract New Grads, Hire Like a Start-Up

Unless corporations adapt their recruiting practices quickly, we will continue to see a brain drain away from corporations and toward start-ups To Attract New Grads, Hire Like a Start-Up - Elli Sharef and Nick Sedlet - Harvard Business Review In order to avoid being left behind, large corporations would do well to listen to the [...]

Sobre founders, CEOs, COOs y otras hierbas (en)

Reid weighed in eloquently on this topic. “[to be CEO you need to] devote substantial time to time consuming things like running meetings and other business process. You can’t just do the exciting stuff like making the final call on product and speaking at conferences, while shuffling off everything else to the mythical COO who loves [...]

NO. The one word shouldn’t exist in an entrepreneur’s vocabulary

I want to know. And I have nothing to fear in the answer. The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary"… Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. They always finish the interview with a “thank you” and barely ask next steps.Any great sales person will ask you [...]

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