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The illusion of progress

In business on 10 September 2009 with no comments

Remember the days when people found out about proposing via those huge stadium scoreboards and it was all the rage? Now there’s someone who used his iPhone and some web app to propose to his girlfriend. Same story, different time, right? The future husband is understandably upbeat about it: The moral of the story? Apps [...]

Educating yourself

In business on 24 August 2009 with 2 comments

You don’t get told how to educate yourself – you have to find it out by yourself. “What about school, what about university,” you might ask. It’s worth something, of course. It’s just not what you probably think it is. I always considered myself above average in terms of insightfulness, inquisitiveness and intelligence. I thought [...]