Young and Brilliant: Archive

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Feb 1st

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ColaLife →

About 2.2 million children a year die from dehydration from diarrhea. Cola Life is trying to advocate using Coca-Cola’s distribution network to distribute rehydration salts to the poorest parts of the world. For a better sense of just how well connected Coca-Cola is to the developing world read this article, which explains how Coca-Cola sales information can predict whether a country will...

Jan 31st

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“Buying behaviour and decision-making criteria imply that those in the lower...”

– The 5D’s of BoP Marketing: Touchpoints for a holistic, human-centered strategy - Core77

Jan 31st

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Readings of the week...

As part of my quest for more OC, I’ve decided to share my top reads of the week. I do a lot of reading, so here’s what I’ve dug up this week. Getting There From Here, by Atul Gawande This was my favorite article from the entire week. I love the concept of path-dependence, and in particular, I find it a compelling way to analyze historical change. So, if you’re at all...

Jan 31st

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Amazon’s Kindle 2 Will Debut Feb. 9 - Bits Blog -... →

Is Jeff Bezos trying to be the new Steve Jobs?

Jan 28th

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“The monument to Soviet central planning was supposed to have been a heap of...”

– A special report on the future of finance: The collapse of finance | Greed—and fear | The Economist

Jan 28th

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Marco responds to my minirant →

spaceships: peterberkman: unalone: marco: unalone: Jesus Christ. I tell you people that a 5-minute game made me cry, that it’s one of the greatest and most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and a total of one person replies. I post a picture of a camera lens coffee cup, and I get 87 notes as of this writing. This isn’t indicative of the decline of society or people having shallow taste. The...

Jan 28th

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“Justine Cassell, director of Northwestern University’s Center for Technology...”

– Digital Domain - The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science - NYTimes.com

Jan 27th

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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

– Bill Watterson (via thresca)

Jan 27th

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Jan 27th

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Habit Forming

I’m not really a resolution setter. I discovered I was epically terrible at these, and going all-out for as long as you could was just, not a very productive mental state. Instead, I’m in the habit of trying to form habits (see that clever play on words right there!?!): I agree with myself to do something a month, or two weeks if it’s a really tough one. What I’ve found is...

Jan 27th

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Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint... →

Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world’s funniest passenger complaint letter.

Jan 27th

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