If you ever wondered what’s beyond the horizon – here’s a map 🙂
Beyond the horizon
////Selfimage downunder
//the German “you deserve better than me” is eerily at odds with the Aussie “I deserve better than you”
Munich 2015
//a beautiful summer 🙂
Green tech and entrepreneurship
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This Australian notion that green tech and entrepreneurship is a leftists idea will bring its economy down. It's the major flaw in #auspol.
— iris herself (@irisherself) August 29, 2015
The austerity delusion
//theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion
Excellent Guardian article by Paul Krugman
May 2010, as Britain headed into its last general election, elites all across the western world were gripped by austerity fever, a strange malady that combined extravagant fear with blithe optimism. Every country running significant budget deficits – as nearly all were in the aftermath of the financial crisis – was deemed at imminent risk of becoming another Greece unless it immediately began cutting spending and raising taxes. Concerns that imposing such austerity in already depressed economies would deepen their depression and delay recovery were airily dismissed; fiscal probity, we were assured, would inspire business-boosting confidence, and all would be well.
People holding these beliefs came to be widely known in economic circles as “austerians” – a term coined by the economist Rob Parenteau – and for a while the austerian ideology swept all before it.
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12 habits of ultra successful people
//12 Habits That Set Ultra Successful People Apart
A study at Strayer University found that most people think success is about achieving your personal goals.
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On the fallacy of proud
//exactly that:
DE: Stolz auf die Herkunft sein, OBWOHL man dafür nix kann, aber die Vergangenheit der Herkunft vergessen wollen, WEIL man nichts dafür nix kann.
EN: Proud on the heritage EVEN THOUGH not done anything about it, but want to forget the past BECAUSE have not done it.
Us and them
//They try to figure us out
https://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2013.html
#wearedatabase
What defines a generation?
//What defines a generation? Born in the same time bracket? But what if your parents got you really young, but your friend’s parents got their kids late? So you & your mate might be 15 years apart, but you were both raised by people from the same generation/same time bracket/same historic background…so you are both confronted with same influences, but have different timelines and subliminal hums in your background…
So, what makes the fine grain? There are generations between generations, and types between categories, yet where does natural empathy and true understanding end?
Jobs of tomorrow
//Preparing for the jobs of tomorrow
Apr 25, 2014 - LinkedIn article by James Arvanitakis Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis· University of Western Sydney
It is obvious that the Australian economy is facing a number of adjustments. The closure of Ford and Holden, as well as the recent announcement of Qantas, highlights that the opportunities that once existed, no longer exist.
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Blue skin
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“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”
Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
Botany
//Botany-ma-bay you beautiful thang 😉
Lack of global governance
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The biggest development challenges for the future stem not from lack of global finance but lack of global governance http://t.co/yom2PHVxNP
— Ilona Kickbusch (@IlonaKickbusch) May 1, 2015
Sydneytown
//Sydney you beauty
Right & Wrong
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I don't know right from wrong. Right & Wrong don't know either. They's sitting either side of me. Three of us. Waiting. Right. Uh? Wrong.
— Kipplewitz (@kipster003) April 17, 2015
Happy Capstern
//My Easter Sunday in one pretty shot 😉
Reason above all else
//About Ayn Rand
While in high school, she determined that she was an atheist and that she valued reason above any other human virtue.
Ayn called her philosophy “Objectivism”, describing its essence as “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” She considered Objectivism a systematic philosophy and laid out positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics.
What an utterly inspiring woman.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Flavours
//Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
[George Eliot]
Abbottsolutely hopeless
//You have 4 weeks to check out the fab ‘Abbottsolutely hopeless’ poster by @magzarian – up in 64 Regent St Chippendale until end of March
See at 64 Regent St Chippendale #abbotsolutelyhopeless pic.twitter.com/pbqpk6NfT1
— Abbottsolutelynot (@Abbottsolutely) February 23, 2015
Should you call that meeting?
//SHOULD YOU CALL THAT MEETING?
by Wendy MacNaughton
Everyone benefits when great minds meet, yet most office meetings are anything but great. How can we free up our colleagues to do more work that matters?
Step one: Believe that it’s possible. Step two: Think before you call that meeting.
