Category: Quotations
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And for those of you homeschooling
I am looking forward to schools reopening and in-person teaching resuming. The tech industry has ballyhooed the potential of online learning for years. Twenty-twenty was the first real test, and it failed badly. Poorer students with fewer tech resources (good laptops and strong internet) and kids with busy parents have suffered most. Many of the…
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The Predator Primer
“See Dick run. See Jane run. Run run run. See the wolves chase Dick and Jane. Chase chase chase. …”Gary Larson, The Far Side, 2021-01-11
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Employees
Good employees follow processes. Great employees tweak processes. Exceptional employees find ways to reinvent processes, not just because they are expected to … but because they just can’t help themselves.Unknown, but I first ran across it on Linkedin
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Could be worse
On average, we live pretty well; worse than last year, but definitely better than next year.Noticed in retweeet from tweet by user Julia Ioffe, @juliaioffe, dated 2020-09-28 and attributed as Russian saying
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Ingenuity
The thing about human ingenuity is that when there is a sharp need for something, it tends to crystalize in discovery.Irving Finkel, Assyriologist, Nova S47 E11: A to Z the First Alphabet
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Best advice Warren Buffett ever got
“He said, ‘Warren, you can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.’ It was such an easy way of putting it. You haven’t missed the opportunity. Just forget about it for a day. If you feel the same way tomorrow, tell them — but don’t spout off in a moment of anger.” Thomas Murphy…