Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
—Wilkins Micawber
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Your world is the sum of everything you pay attention to, or have paid attention to in the past.
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TweetYour ability to screen and select your experience, create order from chaos, and delight in fascination are attention’s great benefits, but they exact a price. That little piece of reality that you tune in on is literally and figuratively far sketchier and more subjective than you assume.
—Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, Winifred Gallagher
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Facts are Sacred
Data journalism - It’s rise, and continued importance.
Turns out it’s a lot of Excel, and having a good story to tell through the data
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TweetThe Global Auction
The notion that a university degree is the key to future success and prosperity is broken. This has some pretty serious Global implications, lots of which are explored.
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TweetNot another list
I am going to share the books I read throughout 2012, once I am done with them.
No giant list at years end.
Brief summary, Amazon link, and then a simple thumbs up (tu), or thumbs down (td) rating.
Tweet1/1, or 1/2 ?
I am pretty sure that 1 of 1 is an easier choice than which 1 of 2.
Especially when the 2 are different.
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