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• Other thoughts from Caterina @Clickable

  Some other thoughts I blackberried during tonight’s chat: Caterina mentioned her well-travelled post “Working Hard is Overrated” which draws a line between panic and productivity thusly: We agreed that a lot of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”. Freaking out included panicking, working on things just to be working on something, [...]

  Oct 28

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• Best Thought from Clickable with Caterina Fake

  So I went to a great talk tonight by Caterina Fake (she is my cousin’s cousin — no, not my second cousin, but my cousin’s cousin) at Clickable‘s Interesting Cafe. Trina’s the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, a service I love deeply and one I am getting to know. The best insight was a comment [...]

  Oct 28

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• Zynga: org structure follows business needs

  In an overall good article on the App economy, I particularly enjoyed this insight into Zynga’s work: With employees grouped into a series of discrete loft offices, Zynga’s operation looks more like 11 small startups glued together than one large one. It’s a reflection of how the company is run: Studio heads set goals and [...]

  Oct 26

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• Passive Candidates on a Job Board

  John Zappe reports that Dice is doing something interesting: configuring access to its database to allow access to “passive” candidates. Dice now shows a tab on its search results page with candidates who match the search but haven’t been back in more than a year. It’s actually quite a clever approach: Give recruiters exactly what [...]

  Oct 26

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• O.J. Simpson gets a second mortgage

  Oh, well, that explains it then…. “Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife’s parents,” she recalled. Simpson had been acquitted of killing his wife Nicole and her friend but was later found liable [...]

  Oct 26

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• optical illusions

  This optical illusion page is mind-boggling, particularly “color perception”.

  Oct 24

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• “Pay what you want” model doesn’t work out for government

  “Pay-what-you-want” is a concept with lots of appeal — altruistic-seeming, purely-motivated fashionably cooperative, and touted by Radiohead, restaurants and role-playing games. Alas, it’s first broad test in employment compensation is a failure. As the Washington Post reports, most subjects of the experiment fled the lab before the Paymaster could ex post facto acquire their skills [...]

  Oct 23

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• The Perfect Holiday Gift for…. me!

  If any of you were wondering what to get your linguistically animated scribbler this holiday season, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is available in my color!

  Oct 23

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• Client development in a bad economy

  Downtime is the right time to be catching up on all those things you should do but just never get around to doing. Like making your current clients love you even more. Because we are in the human capital industry, we often forget how fascinating, alluring, and secretive the information we have can seem to [...]

  Oct 23

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• Job Graphs — City Job Losses Visually Represented

  This is pretty fascinating to watch. The largest 100 cities in the USA and the top 20 Canadian cities’ job losses represented by month over time. Lots of interesting trends if you watch the map a few times. For example, why does New Orleans’ unemployment beginning increasingly rapidly in May – August 2005 before Katrina [...]

  Oct 22

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