“In our early years, we didn’t talk about culture much. We hadn’t documented it all. We just built a business that we wanted to work in. And, that was great. But the real return on culture happened when we started getting more deliberate about it. By writing it down. By debating it. By taking it apart, polishing the pieces and putting it back together. Iterating. Again. And again.”~ Dharmesh Shah, Co-founder, Hubspot
A Journey Down Austria’s Path to the Right Der Spiegel
Photos of mixed-race people, taken 15 years apart, with interviews about our culture’s changing views of race
Hyperallergic
Open plan offices reduce collaboration, study finds
Many organisations bring in open plan offices to increase collaboration between employees, but doing so could actually reduce staff interaction, research suggests.
Contrary to enlightened practice, attempting to eliminate all stress from the workplace may not be best for the individual or the organisation.
Is stress at work always a bad thing?
Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet NPR
Clever tax strategies may be legal, but they aren't productive
Productivity
isn’t improving as fast it could be partly because some professionals
are helping their bosses or customers game the system
What smart bosses do to get the best out of staff
Bosses (and politicians) need to stop thinking they know better than the professionals and telling them how to do their jobs.
Open plan offices reduce collaboration, study finds
Many organisations bring in open plan offices to increase collaboration between employees, but doing so could actually reduce staff interaction, research suggests.
Contrary to enlightened practice, attempting to eliminate all stress from the workplace may not be best for the individual or the organisation.
Is stress at work always a bad thing?
Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet NPR
‘I was shocked it was so easy’: meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you’re gay Guardian. Brian C:
The New York Times: How Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track More Than What’s on Tonight: “… people’s data is also increasingly being vacuumed right out of their living rooms via their televisions, sometimes without their knowledge. …”Samba TV has struck deals with roughly a dozen TV brands — including Sony, Sharp, TCL and Philips — to place its software on certain setsAs well as sexuality, he believes this technology could be used to detect emotions, IQ and even a predisposition to commit certain crimes. Kosinski has also used algorithms to distinguish between the faces of Republicans and Democrats, in an unpublished experiment he says was successful.
