Aug 24
Steve Jobs on corporate culture:
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”
How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?
With the coastline altered and the remains if the city hurried beneath mountains of dirt, Ephesus was lost for hundreds for years. Now, archeologists are excavating the impressive ruin.
Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.
Martin Cooper, speaking the first words ever said over a mobile phone. A Motorola engineer, Martin used his newly invented device to call Joel Engel, a rival at AT&T, on April 3, 1973. Many would say that the mobile phones have been rude and annoying ever sense.
See: This story from the BBC and this one from CNN for more
There are times when time takes too much time to time out. Know what I mean?
Blame it on the Babylonians. Our Base 60 time system is a bear to calculate — especially if you have to calculate runtimes of segments of video.
Quick: What’s the duration between timestamp 00:18:28 and 00:45:39?
My point exactly. Trying to count that clumsy sum on your finders and toes will give your a brain hang-up more epic than Babylon’s famous gardens.
Luckily, I came across this handy, free time calculator for just such mathematical challenges. As an added plus, the calculator stores your past entries, so you can click to compute common number combos.
Nebuchadnezzar himself couldn’t ask for a better math tool. Unless, of course, he would have know about the decimal system.
From today’s WSJ… View the article here…
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks the Rangers need prayer!
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Oct 17
it is the road