2 Aug
2013
A Text Conversation About Steve Jobs
OTHER POSTS
BBC: Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’
If you’ve only just caught on to the concept of online university courses called Moocs, then you’re in danger of falling behind again. Harvard, one of the world’s most influential universities, is moving on to Spocs – which stands for small private online courses. Nothing to do with Star Trek and sombre Vulcans, but plenty […]
LeBron’s Odds of Catching Jordan
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/lebrons-odds-of-catching-jordan/?_r=2 Not the most lucid post in the world but fun nonetheless. Nate Silver has done fantastic work with prediction models over the past few years. “One can forgive Jordan, who did not have anything left to prove. But to match him, James will need to win two or three more titles over the next […]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future
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The Web of Kindness: What Buddha Can Teach the Modern World
From Big Think: One aspect of modern life which I think Buddhism speaks to is the fact that we’re not very aware of the fact that we are all interconnected. What we do in one country affects other countries. In fact, it affects stuff going on on the other side of the globe: what we […]