Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Team-building exercises can be a waste of time. You achieve more by getting personal

“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”
– Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford



Julien Pollack & Petr Matous, via The Conversation
There’s a team-building approach that doesn’t involve bicycles or obstacle courses or whitewater rafting, nor even your whole team.

The ways we come to change our minds demonstrate the richness and strangeness of human reason 


The developer who built Twitter’s retweet button regrets what he did. BuzzFeed News’ Alex Kantrowitz with the story of the “button that ruined the internet.”


Edith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien - (original)  



The Shadow Bosses of the Gig Economy Jacobin

Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes? Airmail News

 Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues August 4, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Medicare fraud, identity theft: Genetic testing scams target seniors; NIST Publishes Multifactor Authentication Practice Guide; “You Can Probably Be Identified From Your Anonymized Data”; and CIS Releases Newsletter on Cleaning Up Data and Devices


Why I Let Criticisms Of Putin Get Edited Out Of The Russian Translations Of My Books


Yuval Noah Harari: “As a thinker and author, I do my best to reach diverse audiences around the world, and not just readers in Western democracies. … Some will no doubt disagree, but I think that as long as local adaptations of books are done in the form of altering specific examples rather than core ideas, they are worth the price.” –Newsweek

 RTs Reviews and Marginalia : Blogging Note — Living in God’s waiting room

The Underground Group Supplying Pittsburgh's Prisoners with Books | Literary Hub.  

What do the world's wealthiest do with their money?