From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
September 12, 2011 at 3:11 am
A couple years ago I interviewed a few neuro-psychologists and learning experts to see if they could help me understand how I learn and process information. My thinking was, kids ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
September 3, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Dutch drivers are taught that when you are about to get out of the car, you reach for the door handle with your right hand — bringing your arm across your body to the door. This ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 19, 2011 at 7:39 pm
In a question on Quora about how a start-up should handle performance reviews, John Lilly writes:
After believing in annual reviews for most of my career, I don't really believe ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 10, 2011 at 4:38 am
The theory behind outsourcing is that it enables specialization: you do one thing really well and let others do the rest.
Some of the more frustrating customer service experiences ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
August 6, 2011 at 12:47 am
Jeff Jarvis says the jobs that technology has eliminated are not coming back, and Paul Graham rightfully asks, "Why not this time?" Historically, technology eliminates jobs but ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 16, 2011 at 8:43 pm
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 13, 2011 at 3:14 am
Thomas Friedman writes about the changing job market in America:
The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
July 11, 2011 at 1:03 am
Talking Funny is a four-way conversation between Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais, and Louis CK on the craft of comedy. Here's Part 1 (and embedded below). One bit jumped ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
June 30, 2011 at 3:37 am
Chris Rock, in his unique blend of wisdom, riffs on the difference between having a job and having a career:
He seems to define a job as something you hate and a career as something ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
June 18, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Things I would blog about were I blogging more regularly (normal pace will return in August):
Peter Beinart on Rep. Anthony Weiner:
Truth be told, I don’t think the real ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
June 12, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Seth Godin writes:
If you're going to work...
work hard.
That way, you'll have something to show for it.
The biggest waste is to do that thing you call work, but to interrupt ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
June 5, 2011 at 3:18 pm
This is a short biography of a link, as it relates to the randomness and serendipity that drives conversation on the web.
A couple weeks ago Tim Harford, the Financial Times columnist ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
May 24, 2011 at 2:46 pm
The Economist reviews a new book called World 3.0 by Pankaj Ghemawat that throws cold water on the idea the world is flat:
Mr Ghemawat points out that many indicators of global ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
May 21, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Steven Johnson, author extraordinaire, is moving from New York to the Bay Area (at least for a little while). Here's one of his reasons:
And then there's the passage of time. ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
May 17, 2011 at 2:09 pm
A few months ago, when Senator John Kerry was in Pakistan to push for the release of CIA agent Raymond Davis, he held a Q&A with local media in Lahore. You can hear by the questions ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
May 6, 2011 at 4:12 am
Derek Miller, a writer and technology thinker, passed away a couple days ago. He wrote a touching final post that was scheduled to publish upon his death:
Airdrie, you were ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
May 4, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I've looked at it several times. It's the Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden assault. Gripping. A good example of the power of a photo to convey emotion.
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
April 26, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I've never viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as...slightly above average in talent. Where I excel is with a ridiculous, sickening work ethic. While ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
April 21, 2011 at 8:37 pm
The bigger problem with Obama's approach is his failure to address—at least so far—the reform of Medicare and Social Security. Without big reductions in spending on these ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
April 6, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Tear down the mirror and find people who you can help. That's the key to happiness, he says. Not fame or fortune.
May sound cliche, but Arnold (who's lived an amazing life by ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
April 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm
In the film Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: "A visiting gentleman accidentally opens a bathroom door and ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 22, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Blogging will be very light for the next couple months (until June or July, 2011). I will, though, be bookmarking web pages in delicious and occassionally tweeting.
I encourage ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 17, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Daniel Jones, the editor behind the insanely popular Modern Love column, talks about trends in submissions:
What is the one relationship theme or essay topic that you see over ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 16, 2011 at 4:54 am
I recently spent a long weekend in Las Vegas. The buffets were outstanding, the weather warm and pleasant, and the hotels stunning. (I hadn't been there in probably 10 years ... (
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From Ben Casnocha: The Blog
March 9, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Most profound (to me) question at TED: "What does it feel like to be wrong?"
audience answered: bad, embarrassing, awful, etc
"You're answering a different question: what does ... (
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