Cool summary of character attributes for being good in a job
Just found on Seth Godin's page and found it a very summary of character attributes for being good at a job. I'm missing an attribute, which is passion, but this I think can easily be a combination of some of the ones below:
analysis
insight
surprise
responsibility
humor
creativity
guts
respect
charisma
vision
calm
and
love.
“Sharkwater” - A must see movie!
At the evening of our first day at the Curacao Dive Festival there was a screening of a documentary movie, that just hit me. I haven't heard about it before unfortunately. It's not only visually stunning - known at best from the BBC planet series - but also tells a fascinating story.
Reference
Presentation with great visualization and emotion
Hans Rosling gave a very good presentation on third-world myths at the TED conference last year. The presentation was titled "Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen" and it is true. The statistics he is presenting and his performance are very persuasive. This is clearly a very good demonstration on how a good visualization and a good presenter can be able to keep the audience attached to the presentation even if the topic are actually just numbers.
All TED presentation from last year have been made publicly available just lately. I recommend browsing through some of them as most of them are great.
Here are some of my favourits:
- Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software
- Joshua Prince-Ramus: Designing the Seattle Central Library
- Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights
Netvibes (and web usage behaviour)
Until recently I used google homepage for my daily RSS feed consume. As I use google very frequently it made perfect sense to me to start using the google homepage option and get informed about the RSS changes every time I visit google to search something. So I started adding feeds to my google homepage and customize it by adding tabs to it for different types of feeds to get them ordered a bit. Just recently I discovered that the tabs are limited to six tabs only. That was the first thing that bothered me as I tried to add only as many feeds on a page as I can view on a single screen, which normally breaks down to six. So with this I'm limited to 36 feeds. Hmm not bad, but I need more ;-). The second thing that made me think about google homepage is that every time I call google.com the page needs a long time to load, as it tries to load all the feeds. This is a pain in the ass if you just want to run a search quickly and haven't opened a tab with the google homepage permanently (which I rarely do).
What leads to success?
I just had several discussions about success over the last weeks with different people. Tough the discussion topics on success had been on different levels, e.g personal success or success in business there seemed to be general scheme. Today I stumbled over a nice short presentation from Richard St. John presented on one of the TED conferences. I just had the impression that every slide hits one of the keys points I've been collecting through the discussions. On top of it was fun watching the presentation.
