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May
24

Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You

In The Wall Street Journal, Kirk McDonald writes that college graduates without basic computer programming skills are shortchanging their career choices.
Even if your dream job is in marketing or sales or another department seemingly unrelated to programming, I’m not going to hire you unless you can at least understand the basic way my company works. And I’m not alone. If you want a job in media, technology or a related field, make learning basic computer language your goal this summer. … So congratulations again on your achievement—and good luck getting your real-world education.

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May
23

'Steeds meer politici vragen: wie denkt die brutale klootzak van een journalist wel dat hij is?'

Stomverbaasd zijn Tijs van den Brink en zijn collega’s als politici de rollen eens omdraaien en de confrontatie zoeken, schrijft Volkskrantredacteur …
‘Journalisten laten zich tegenwoordig voorstaan op hun agressie’, schreef Financial Times-journalist John Lloyd in What the Media are doing to our Politics (2004), en hij citeerde het beroemd geworden advies dat Harry Evans als redacteur van de Sunday Times aan zijn journalisten gaf: ‘Wanneer je een politicus interviewt, moet je jezelf altijd de vraag stellen: waarom zit die klootzak tegen me te liegen?’ Bijna tien jaar later lijken steeds meer politici zich tijdens interviews een soortgelijke vraag te stellen: wie denkt die brutale klootzak van een journalist wel dat hij is? Op de een of andere manier voelt dat als een heel goede ontwikkeling.

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How to Listen When Someone Is Venting

Don’t give advice, but don’t just sit there either.
As I have written before, when people are upset, it matters less what you tell them than what you enable them to tell you. After they get their feelings off their chest, that’s when they can then have a constructive conversation with you. And not before.

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May
22

The Internet will kill everything you love. But by the time it dies, you won’t even care.

Wow. :)

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5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger

Find what turns you on.
Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing.
Know your strengths.
Fewer and higher quality.
Know what you like and forget the rest.

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Apr
01

What it's like to die

If there is one lesson I took away from the experience, it is not to “live life to the fullest” or “have no regrets”. It is to feel lucky. Feeling lucky means you are appreciating the things in your life that sometimes go unnoticed. It means you are achieving more than think you deserve. Feeling lucky requires a certain humility we often lose sight of.

For me, it took losing everything to remember how lucky I am.

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Mar
31

Pat Metheny on Kenny G

“Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track “What a Wonderful World”. With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can’t use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.”

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If You Were the Next Steve Jobs...

“You don’t get to tomorrow by solving yesterday’s problems, over and over and ov — remember Einstein’s definition of insanity? “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”“

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Mar
30

HollandDoc over deze documentaire: “Ruim een halve eeuw lang hebben zijn even erudiete als scherpzinnige beschouwingen het denken over de internationale verhoudingen en het Nederlandse buitenlandbeleid beïnvloed. Een jaar geleden, begin april 2012, stopte J.L.Heldring met zijn column in NRC Handelsblad. “Ik was uitgeschreven.”

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