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Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney – NYTimes.com

Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney – NYTimes.com

YouTube: #Kimmel YouTube Film — Ameowadeus

#Kimmel YouTube Film — Ameowadeus Jimmy Kimmel Live

Why Big Teams Suck

Why Big Teams Suck ‘After devoting nearly 50 years to studying team performance, the late Harvard researcher J. Richard Hackman concluded that four to six members is the team best size for most tasks, that no work team should have more than 10 members, and that performance problems and interpersonal friction increase “exponentially as team […]

Looking Back at the Genesis Album ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’

Looking Back at the Genesis Album ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ ‘A couple of songs from “The Lamb” persist in the Genesis set list, and you can still come across a track or two in the dustier corners of FM radio, but they don’t do well when separated from their host. “The Lamb” is […]

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In 1942, the world had 11 democracies. (Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, Chile.) — Patrick Collison (@patrickc) March 6, 2014 via http://ift.tt/wgo78K

How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart (NYT, 2005)

How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart (NYT, 2005) “When I started, Sears, Roebuck was the Costco of the country, but they allowed someone else to come in under them,” he said. “We don’t want to be one of the casualties. We don’t want to turn around and say, ‘We got so fancy we’ve raised our prices,’ […]

Retail markups and the power of Amazon

Retail markups and the power of Amazon “What sort of markup do retailers add to the wholesale cost so they can cover their overhead and squeeze out a decent profit as well?”

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"It's easier to teach an innovator how to be a CEO instead of teaching a CEO how to be an innovator." — @bhorowitz http://t.co/Nq893knT9D — Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) March 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/p8C924

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@teen_archer @kenarneson let it go, Ian — Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) March 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1fFu51Y

The Heroine’s Journey: How Campbell’s Model Doesn’t Fit

The Heroine’s Journey: How Campbell’s Model Doesn’t Fit “Like any historically grounded analysis, Campbell’s framework for the Hero’s Journey is inextricably bound up in the values, conventions, and perspectives of the sources upon which it draws. By examining literally thousands of years of human history, Campbell surely identifies concepts, themes, and archetypes that will continue […]

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Thanks to @RealBanny for this nugget! RT I have to admit, this was my favorite photo from the #Oscars last night: http://ift.tt/1kt2Bib — Joe Hamrahi (@JHamrahi) March 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1jNjkKc

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No matter what happens next, Tim Cook telling someone on the Koch Bros. payroll to piss up a rope will be my favorite thing he ever does. — Philip Michaels (@PhilipMichaels) March 2, 2014 via http://ift.tt/KDNKRI

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Thousand words. http://ift.tt/1dL3cUF — Jason Woerner (@jasonwoerner) March 1, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1pH2ekF

Our Comrade The Electron

Our Comrade The Electron “So today I want to talk about the past, about the man who designed that clever listening device, Lev Sergeyevich Termen. Termen was a visionary whose inventions were decades ahead of their time, but in his personal life he struggled against the unexpected. The poor guy always seemed to be stepping […]

What You Learn in Your 40s

What You Learn in Your 40s “There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.”

A new consensus on the future of news

A new consensus on the future of news “Consensus #2a: Paywalls impose a quality imperative. For there to be any kind of growth story, the content behind a paywall cannot be rote newspapering.”

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Written by a 14 year old. 2 ways to see the same words. http://ift.tt/1eyVooj via @DerekNichols0 (poet's bro) it's deservedly gone viral. — Philippa_Perry (@Philippa_Perry) February 27, 2014 via http://ift.tt/A2y4Fu

YouTube: Can You Solve This?

Can You Solve This? Veritasium

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#FaceofMLB, #EricSogard relaxes between games by painting Happy Liittle Brackets. That'll be our little secret. http://ift.tt/1ho3oxA — Rally Plantain (@RallyPlantain) February 28, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1ho3oxC

YouTube: Esquivel – Surfboard

Esquivel – Surfboard RingelhutsNiece