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Divination and getting unstuck · Tony Sheng

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Divination and getting unstuck. In this particular interview, Kelly brings up a tool that Brian Eno created in the 70s called Oblique Strategies. A deck of cards with aphorisms designed to help creative people get unstuck. There’s an online version. Of the deck if you’re curious what’s on the cards. This morning, I did a bit more research on Oblique Strategies and learned the Eno designed his deck based on an ancient Chinese divination text called the. Back then, in ancient China, there was this feeling ...

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Segregation by social networks · Tony Sheng

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Segregation by social networks. My brother graduated from Duke this past weekend (yay Gary! He whirled around campus exchanging warm embraces, hosted parties for his closest friends, and rejected sleep for several consecutive days to soak in every last remaining minute with his college brothers and sisters. The value of his experience was not symbolized by a leather-bound diploma, but by the texts and hugs and promises exchanged with the people to whom he felt eternally bonded. And the practice of. My ex...

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Tell me about something you’ve removed from your life · Tony Sheng

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Tell me about something you’ve removed from your life. I’ve started asking a new question of everybody that comes on my podcast. And it’s quickly becoming my favorite. Tell me about something that you’ve removed from your life. Their answers always produce great tape (material for the show). You usually get a sense of their priorities because they have to explain what problem led them to removing this thing from their life. It almost always comes with a story:. Before we scour our environment for things ...

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Boredom, my companion · Tony Sheng

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Boredom, my companion. I grew up in Macomb, Illinois, a rural town of fewer than 20,000 people. The town comprised farmland and a university where my parents were computer science professors. Every couple months, we’d take an exciting trip to nearby Peoria, where we would spend a few hours at Chuckie Cheeses and have dinner at Old Country Buffet. Macomb was quaint. As a kid, I felt unburdened by the question of what’s the point? I was a hopeful and trusting child. When an adult suggested I work on so...

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Nobody needs a generalist · Tony Sheng

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Nobody needs a generalist. Growing up, one of my greatest fears was forgetting something I learned in class. Everybody worries of misplacing an important formula on an exam, but my fear ran deeper. I worried that my recollection might fail me twenty, thirty, sixty years later. In my young mind, success in school indicated intelligence which predicated success in life. If my net was already full, I was screwed. This obsession lasted through college and into my first few years of work. Even at my first...

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Vu Sur Le Web | Demain@Infhotep

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Le laboratoire expérimental du cabinet Infhotep. Vu sur le web. Internet & Digital. Archives de catégorie : Vu sur le web. La GBCP, un enjeu organisationnel. Depuis plus de 10 ans, nous accompagnons nos clients dans leurs projets de transformation en finances via les projets Accord LOLF (ERP People soft), Chorus (ERP SAP) – un système d’information en tant que tel -, et aujourd’hui, la GBCP. Continuer la lecture →. Rétrospective des premiers Tweets RH. Je vous propose un article de blogging4jobs.com.

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Predictions for end of life care · Tony Sheng

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Predictions for end of life care. I was born and raised in America by Chinese parents, so I’m no stranger to cultural conflict. Why do we take our shoes off in the house? Why do people at school think our food is weird? Why should I study extra if people make fun of me for it? Chinese values would constantly butt heads with the American values of my peers. Given the option, I preferred traditions that. Make me feel like an outsider. This isn’t yet a problem for me- my parents are awesome and healthy and ...

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Science Fiction and Silicon Valley · Tony Sheng

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Science Fiction and Silicon Valley. I read books to feel inspiration, but earlier this year, the books I picked up started to feel dull. These were the same kinds of business and nonfiction books that I’d devoured last year, but for some reason I just didn’t like them. A friend suggested I try reading something less familiar, so I picked up some science fiction. First, I read a story about a man stranded on Mars called. By a popular Chinese writer named Liu Cixin. And finally, Isaac Asimov’s. Great entre...

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How to write like Winston Churchill · Tony Sheng

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How to write like Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill’s prolific writing, while present in many an English household, seems to get lost in an American education. Most students, though familiar with his legendary oratory ability, would share my surprise in learning that he produced more words than both Dickens and Shakespeare combined. I recently read Boris Johnson’s biography of the man,. And found Churchill’s fantastically expensive method of writing a useful study on how to get things done. After his ...