Fix Your Boring Slides Six simple tips for presentations

15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes Timo Bingmann

Winter’s end in northern Greenland – Return of the Sun – Aeon Film The exquisitely beautiful landscape of northern Greenland comes back to life in the first days of sunlight after weeks of winter darkness.

How Monkeys Watch Movies and People Tell Stories “…it seems that what makes people different is our ability to follow a narrative. Whereas monkeys look and react to scenes quickly, people fixate on one actor and integrate complex events over time.”

Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent (pdf) Influential paper on business theory. “Comparing intended strategy with realized strategy, as shown in Figure 1, has allowed us to distinguish deliberate strategies-realized as intended-from emergent strategies- patterns or consistencies realized despite, or in the absence of, intentions.”

Paul Keating’s address at the Australian War Memorial 2013: We are too wise to be cannon fodder again “One thing is certain: young Australians, like the young Europeans I mentioned earlier, can no longer be dragooned en masse into military enterprises of the former imperial variety on the whim of so-called statesmen. They are fortunately […]

Yes, I’ve Been There: On abuse “That vicious little voice inside you that cheers when you lash into someone — that voice is not your friend. It will never help you reach people. It will never change hearts or minds. It cannot build bridges, it can only destroy. It will never let you be happy, […]