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"Steven Smith has spent the past ten years exploring how great leaders use ego differently than everyone else—how they work, think, collaborate, and who they are. The result of his work is a book he co-authored with David Marcum called egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability). His work has been featured by The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Irish Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Le Figaro. The topic of this interview is one of paramount importance to anyone who wants to change the world: Ego. Too much? Too little? How much is just enough?"

"Railsify.com is a new site, developed by Adam Cooke, that acts as a central resource for Rails plugins and related tools (Rake tasks, toolkits, etc). Adam has a blog post with more background and details."

"Over the last weeks we’ve selected over 40 expert books in the fields of typography, color, graphic design, brand identity, inspiration, web design and programming, Web 2.0,usability, data visualization and simplicity. We’ve ordered most of them (some books were unavailable)."

"The bottom line here is that “collaboration” is seriously overused as a buzzword. Think carefully next time you use it."

"I get to see a lot of Ruby code while writing for Ruby Inside. Most is very good, but sometimes we forget some of Ruby's shortcuts and tricks and instead reinvent the wheel. In this post Ⅰ present 21 different Ruby tricks, from those that most experienced developers already use every day to those that are more obscure. Before writing this piece, for example, Ⅰ had no idea about trick number 2! Whatever your level, a refresh may help you the next time you encounter similar scenarios."

"I teach Computing to children and in education there are many Computing terms that we rarely use outside the classroom. For example, we say IT in the real world but ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in school. One term that Ⅰ think is useful but little used outside of the classroom is General Purpose Package. A GPP is any application which is of little use or interest until you input your own information, such as Pages or Numbers. The classic counterexample is a game, to which you provide very little data and are generally strongly constrained in your usage patterns."

"Have you thought about choreography as a metaphor for management?

Choreography (literally “dance-writing”, also known as “dance composition”), is the art of making structures in which movement occurs.

Are you getting people moving? Are you moving?

Ellen dances on her show and manages to get the audience to dance. Watch this video of Ellen and how she dances to her own tune while getting others to dance – even if it is actually an advertisement for a credit card!"

A hypothesis is thus presented whereby phosphorus is considered in two broad forms: “easy” which is able to be mined quickly, but already peaked in 1990, and “hard” which has large remaining reserves and is yet to peak, but cannot be mined as quickly. (In reality there are probably many different forms ranging from very easy to very hard.) Just as with oil, estimates that lump all types of reserve in together will yield a theoretical peak that is high and distant, however the true system may involve periods of decline after exhausting easy-to-get reserves before other supplies come online to replace them. Ultimately we must develop a recyclable phosphorus supply if humans are to continue living on this planet.

"Enable Google Calendar in Apple's iCal"

"30 Ultra High-end Photoshop Tutorials
Nov 7th in Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Ever drooled over the artwork created by Photoshop masters like Nik Ainley and Greg Martin? Drool no longer, because with the help of these 30 tutorials you can create high-end digital artworks and effects to rival any Photoshop legend."

"Extraction of carotene from carrots. Pictures: 1) Ⅰ finely grated carrots, 2) Blended them with water and filtered of the remains – the water phase was then layered with plain cooking oil 3) Water and oil were mixed with an immersion blender and the phases left to separate, 4) A plastic bag serves as a separatory funnel – cut a small hole to let out the liquid. The water phase turned grey, probably because Ⅰ left it at room temperature to allow the phases to separate (1–2 days)."

"As Ⅰ wrote in Daddy, Where's Your Phone?, it's time to start thinking of the phone as a first class device for accessing web services, not as a way of repurposing content or applications originally designed to be accessed on a keyboard and big screen. The release of speech recognition in Google Mobile App for iPhone continues the process begun with the iPhone itself, of building a new, phone-native way of delivering computing services. Here are two of the key elements"

What is eco-efficiency?

The purpose of Eco-Efficiency Analysis is to harmonize economy and ecology. more
What is the SEEBALANCE®?

Incorporation of the societal pillar into the eco-efficiency analysis results in a three-dimensional sustainability assessment, the SEEBALANCE®. More information on the SEECube®, societal indicators and pilot projects… more

"Greek philosophers diagnosed the weakness of will to be the problem of why knowledge does not immediately translate into action. Smokers are a good example of this. They know fully well, that every cigarette is killing them, yet they continue to smoke. The Eastern wisdom traditions like Buddhism on the other hand, would argue that the problem is the failure to integrate such knowledge into the person’s being. It is meditation that serves as the link and the tool in the integration of intellectual knowledge and the desired changes in our behavior. Therefore in order to make meaningful changes in our physical actions, we need to change our perspective on life."

"Today’s leaders, who all belong to the collapsing world (including Barak Obama (3)), cannot possibly imagine how to solve the problem, just like central bankers in 2006⁄2007 could not possibly imagine the scope the unfolding crisis could reach (4). It is their world which is disappearing under their eyes, their beliefs and their illusions (sometimes similar) (5). According to our team, a 20 percent renewal of worldwide leaders is required to begin to see sustainable solutions (6) appear. This is indeed, according to LEAP/E2020, the « critical mass » needed to permit any fundamental change of perspective in a complex not very hierarchical human group. Today we are still far from reaching this critical mass: in order to contribute to finding solutions to the crisis, those new leaders must accede power in full awareness of the crisis’ specific nature."

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