Information Overload
My question whilst watching this was how much of the new information being added to society is actually relevant to us?
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Interesting Fact Of The Day
In the week ending 17/04/15 1,680,000 new A-share accounts were opened in China.
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The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money
Meditation, like yoga before it, has been fully assimilated into corporate America. Aetna, General Mills, and Goldman Sachs all offer their employees free in-office meditation training. In January, the Times reported on a packed panel at Davos where members of the global élite “professed that meditation gave them a competitive advantage.” Speaking to Bloomberg, a meditation instructor…
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The Transformative Effects of Reading
Reading a book is the closest we can come to sharing the mind of a great thinker. After all, what is a book but thoughts transcribed? Spend a lot of time with great people and we cannot help but be transformed by the experience. If you want to become a more interesting person, with a…
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Prediction
I have written often about how appalling the social sciences are at prediction and I include the financial markets within this soft science definition. The chart below shows that intriguingly this is not the case with other sciences – longer term weather forecasts are becoming more and more accurate. The interesting thing is that economists have…
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Email Of the Week
It has been sometime since we had an email of the week. So I offer the following without comment. YES HI LOUISEMY name is ………..I am a researcher YES I research gaming also see my sitewww……….. it is different opportunityI just move to …… two months ago I just purchase my…
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