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Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia
Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia
“Workers of the future are going to be much more like entrepreneurs, negotiating short term assignments, juggling part time gigs, combining income from self employment and part time work. This implies a very different education than our current big box, stay in line system can provide.”
# 2012.10.30 – 12:18
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles
“But to just repeat and sort of disagree with the process and say, ‘Well, I think we should be highlighting tools more,’ or ‘I think we should be highlighting performance more,’ or ‘I think this tool is more important than that tool or whatever,’ we’ve already gone through the discipline of figuring all that stuff out.”
# 2012.10.30 – 11:36
Baseball and the Art of the Possible
Baseball and the Art of the Possible
“In fact, the beauty he should prefer — or, at least, that I prefer — is the moment before the blackbird whistles. It could sound like anything, one imagines.”
# 2012.10.30 – 11:04
Theodicy
Theodicy
“Is it possible to believe in a loving God who is omnipotent … in the face of the massive sufferings of human beings and animals? … Most do so with an appeal to mystery sooner or later, since experience and evidence contradict the initial assumptions: divine omnipotence, divine goodness, and the reality of evil and suffering.
# 2012.10.30 – 10:50
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship
“Yeshayah remembers growing up in such an environment — an eclectic mix of baseball and Jewish observance.”
# 2012.10.30 – 10:37
Blog: Sabermetric Research: Would Toyota sell fewer cars if they raised the price by a penny?
# 2012.10.30 – 10:07
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What do you want to achieve before you die?
# 2012.10.30 – 09:44
Blog: The Feature: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis
# 2012.10.29 – 11:52
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What are the 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs?
# 2012.10.29 – 11:15
Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The Software Form of Government
# 2012.10.29 – 11:15
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
“Men who are personally incorrupt can be the worst monsters — again, Robespierre — because they lose their humanity in worship of abstractions. Cruelty and despotism is in our nature.”
# 2012.10.29 – 08:24
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Sergio Romo and the Tim Wakefield Fastball
# 2012.10.29 – 07:41
Quote from Tumblr
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
Wendell Berry
# 2012.10.28 – 23:56
Limits and Conscientious Consumption
Limits and Conscientious Consumption
“According to various news reports and studies, child slavery is endemic in West Africa’s cocoa plantations, particularly in Cote d’Ivoire, the source of 35 percent of the world’s chocolate.”
# 2012.10.28 – 23:27
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker
“That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action. You had to be the captive of an idea, not the inhabitant of a bloody terrain, to do that.”
# 2012.10.28 – 15:29
Michigan bridge saga a lesson in two democracies
# 2012.10.27 – 10:20
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer
“The firm found that RadioShack’s average time responding to customer calls was just three seconds. That compares with two minutes for Ikea and three minutes for Apple.”
# 2012.10.26 – 21:49
Blog: Svbtle Featured: Moneyball for Votes
# 2012.10.26 – 18:53