Category: Notes
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Today is Election in US
Today is “Political Super Ball” day in the US. Today is also the day that major US news and broadcast media that had been flooding TV screen and headlines with news and annoying political attack aids is ending for most non-political citizens. Media agencies also put an end to one of the best sources of […]
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A Visit From a Close Colleague
We recently received a visit from a close friend I had met when I began my professional career. During the brief period we spent together in our work, we developed a much closer personal friendship. Our jobs kept us apart for nearly a couple of decades and we had lost our contacts. During that time, […]
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Strength Of Weak Ties
According to a recent study published in the prestigious journal Science, weakest connections, like those a person has with an acquaintance versus a close friend, had the greatest impact on users’ job mobility. The study was by team of researchers from prestigious universities like Harvard Business School, Stanford and MIT together with researchers at LinkedIn. […]
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Why We Can’t Write?
In this Inc magazine article, author and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker writes that “the root cause of so much bad writing is what he calls ‘the Curse of Knowledge‘, which he defines as ‘a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. The curse of knowledge […]
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Blogging As A Career?
In a recent Notes, Robin Rendle advises someone who was seeking his advice for his career choice? Robin’s suggestion: I say again to ye: just blog! Blog your heart! Blog about something you’ve learned, blog about something you’re interested in. Blog about cameras or HTML or that one browser bug you’ve noticed this morning or […]
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The Secrets of Making Friends
In a recent post, Chris Coyier writes: There is lots of interesting bits in the The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult episode of Dr. Laurie Santos’s The Happiness Lab podcast”. Dr. Santos is a Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Below, Chris, who watched the episode, and has eloquently summarized […]
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Scorching Heat Wave in California
According to media reporting, California is under scorching heat wave, that has already broken previous all-time records. CNN writes “A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days — setting record high temperatures, fueling destructive wildfires and threatening rolling power shutoffs in California — and it could last even longer due to the effects […]