http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/19/change-your-life-stop-being-busy
‘Most time management advice rests on the unspoken assumption that it’s possible to win the game: to find a slot for everything that matters. But if the game’s designed to be unwinnable,’ Oliver Burkeman says, ‘you can permit yourself to stop trying’
An interesting article by Estelle Caswell at Vox: Photography Race Bias (Sep 2015). Well worthwhile considering, if you work with photos or video – for instance for website publication. Even today it’s an issue, depending on the tools you use and how well you (can) use them!
And as the accompanying video notes, it’s also relevant for tech tricks such as face recognition and face tracking.
Most of the world population is non-white: skins have all kinds of beautiful colours. Make sure your prints, videos, sites and software does them all credit.
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/
It’s not just the census. Ottawa’s been destroying research, wiping clean websites and deleting government records. How the attack on information threatens our economy, our reputation and what we know about ourselves.
Yuying Deng, founder of Aspirus, takes us through 5 things she learned while building a new standup desk.
Read the full article: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/5-counterintuitive-lessons-learned-building-hardware-startup/
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/sep/23/go-home-on-time-day-work-employer-good-for-you
It’s past 5pm on Go Home on Time Day. Here’s why you should take that advice.
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There is a lot of evidence that the number of hours worked does not equate to how much you are getting done. With the OECD countries above, there is a statistically significant negative relationship between the average hours worked and the amount of money made per hour worked. In other words, the countries with longer working hours tend to have less economically productive workers.