by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading, Science
Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? Elite athletes use a whole raft of coaches to help them peform more effectively. So do elite musicians. Why shouldn’t elites in other sectors such as medicine, business and government administration?...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Scott Adams Blog: Creativity Spurt. As the man himself would say, don’t take advice from cartoonists. However, it is an interesting thought that society is well placed to take part in some substantial new thinking about the way the state works now we know it is...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world. The article is a little less frothy than the headline, and makes the valid point that the concentration of power per se is not an issue, but that network theory suggests that such a network is not resilient...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Science
The Ignobel prizes were a funny bunch this year. I couldn’t find one that leaped out at me, but both the videos are worth watching. I guess I have to go for the physics prize, which determined “why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Business, Reading
AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW? – Global Guerrillas has this terribly depressing chart showing how we have managed to destroy the connection between productivity and wages. We have to get this back on track, I think. Separately, if we are looking for one of the...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Reading
Poets Ranked by Beard Weights | Brain Pickings. Genius.
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Reading
Letters of Note: Dejobbed, bewifed, and much childrenised. Glorious.
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Listen, Personal
Complaints Choir: The World’s Mundane Grievances Set to Song | Brain Pickings. Every town needs one. Time for Fi ‘n’ me to set one up in Hong Kong. I love the idea. Crowdsource your grievances, set them to music and then perform at a few choice...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2011 | Science, View
APOD: 2011 October 15 – NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge. Beautiful. Pretty much as our galaxy would look like to someone at the relevant angle and distance. Our solar system is out on the far edges away from the central black hole.
by Tom | Oct 13, 2011 | Personal
Ferry home after singing. And relax.
