“Befriend a Geek” par White October sur Geek are sexy (December 13th, 2008)
Vous aussi, faites un geste pour les geeks.
Vous aussi, faites un geste pour les geeks.
A moment of Schweppervescence (via konrad)
Joie de vivre is fine once you’ve sold that startup and have a summer house in the south of France. In the meantime, get to work. Le Web needs more Europeans on stage next year, and it just may be you up there telling the world how you overcame European culture and grew a successful company.
“Tetris block sculptures : une exposition de pièces de Tetris géantes dans les rues de Sydney” (via CrazynFunny.com & DLL)
…our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet.
Hervé Mariton, lui, fait dans l’humour potache: “Mais dis-moi, Chantal, il a été nommé par qui Xavier Bertrand?” demande-t-il à la porte-parole de l’UMP, qui passe par là. Réponse de Chantal Brunel: “Il a été nommé par interim”. “Interim? Mais c’est qui celui-là?”.
Look at what’s happened to work. It’s become more cognitively complex, more team-based and collaborative, more dependent on social skills, more time-pressured, more reliant on technological competence, and more mobile. It’s less dependent on geography. A growing number of firms are decentralizing their decision-making. Instead, people are communicating in a peer-to-peer fashion, rather than following old-fashioned lines of authority. They’re embracing new technologies that give employees the power to communicate easily and openly with people inside and outside the firm. In doing so, they are creating a new corporate meritocracy. It’s sweeping away the old hierarchical structures and connecting teams of individuals to a wealth of external networks. The Net Generation, young people in their 20s who have grown up digital, is perfectly positioned for this kind of work. Having grown up digital, they expect to collaborate, wherever they are. They insist on speed. They’re innovative by nature. They think work—the work itself—should be fun and challenging.
An Obama job approval rating of 79 percent — that’s the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster. To many Americans, the Bush administration was a national disaster.
In seeking to protect our children from bullying and aggression, we risk depriving them of a most remarkable form of social exchange. In teasing, we learn to use our voices, bodies and faces, and to read those of others — the raw materials of emotional intelligence and the moral imagination. We learn the wisdom of laughing at ourselves, and not taking the self too seriously. We learn boundaries between danger and safety, right and wrong, friend and foe, male and female, what is serious and what is not. We transform the many conflicts of social living into entertaining dramas. No kidding
Une vidéo qui donne raison à ce bon vieil Otto Von Bismarck : “Les lois sont comme les saucisses. C’est mieux de ne pas voir leur préparation”.
