August 2011
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Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto - Umair...
Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto - Umair Haque (Harvard Business School blogger, director at Havas Media Labs) Haque sets out to create a handbook for building a better, durable business of the future. That’s better business based on innovation, disruption and creating real ‘thick value’ for the future of 21st Century capitalism rather than meaningless, unsustainable and harmful ‘thin...
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“For RBS, which was blameless in the distribution of the email, it may also have...”
– Exclusive: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals | Sky News
“One must read, try to possess by memory, and be possessed by the very best that...”
– http://thebrowser.com/interviews/harold-bloom-on-literary-criticism
This Is How a Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beat the... →
tacanderson:
This is very cool. Will be interesting to watch it’s success over a longer period of time.
You might think a 140 character tweet doesn’t have much power, but, as one hedge fund proved, Twitter can help you win the stock market. “Derwent Capital, the hedge fund that is using Twitter sentiment to make its investments, beat the market—and other hedge funds—in its first full month of...
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“…economic policymakers should pay attention to family and community...”
– Ben S. Bernanke - The Economics of Happiness
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“Pour yourself into your product and everything around your product too: how you...”
– “Rework” Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
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“How a new social media system rolls out is of critical importance. Your...”
– http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/05/design-social-norms.html
@DMReporter: Liz Jones in Somalia →
dmreporter:
Surprise! @LizJonesSomalia is a fake! Oh wow. No-way! Pah! Who knew?
About two thirds of you, actually - which is great, because if I’d got 50 negative replies a minute I’d have stopped a long time ago. I’m genuinely delighted that so many people get the joke and totally appreciative of the…
