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rePost::New Behind the Scenes Featurette for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg | /Film

There is a featurette at the linked site.
I’m a big Ben Stiller fan, even watched night at the museum, hope this one is better than along came polly.

Meet Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller): a dysfunctional 40-year-old at a crossroads in his life. Roger wants to “do nothing” for a while, so he agrees to housesit for his younger and more successful brother, giving him a free place to stay in L.A. While in town, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and band mates but times have changed, and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends. Greenberg starts spending time with his brother’s personal assistant Florence (Great Gerwig), an aspiring singer and herself something of a lost soul too. During a series of embarrassingly awkward romantic encounters, we sense that perhaps even someone as irascible as Greenberg may have found somebody who is prepared to appreciate him for himself – if he would only stop critiquing Florence’s techniques in bed. Over the course of several weeks, we watch an uncertain and wonderfully vulnerable courtship play out, and learn how funny, and terribly unpredictable, love in the modern world can be.
via New Behind the Scenes Featurette for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg | /Film.

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rePost:: more, More, MORE! :: Seth's Blog

In the Philippines how well you are treated as a customer is most of the time inversely proportional to how good a customer you are. If you complain a lot you get good service but if you are more of the let it slide type you don’t have such great service. I sometimes wish restaurants do the math and just give great service to their valuable customers. This is partly the reason why I sign up for loyalty cards which help them track your spending, maybe they’d get their act together and figure out that the 80-20 rule / pareto principle probably applies to them. 80 percent of their revenues may come from just 20 percent of their clientele.

You have three choices: put up with the whiners, write off everyone, or, deliberately exclude the ungrateful curs.
Firing the customers you can’t possibly please gives you the bandwidth and resources to coddle the ones that truly deserve your attention and repay you with referrals, applause and loyalty.
via Seth’s Blog: more, More, MORE!.

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rePost::4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion | Zen Habits

I was interviewing for a job in a startup last year. The interview was going well then I was asked what have you launched. I wasn’t able to say anything and that was the end of what could have been a partnership.  I have to remind myself that good enough is good enough and that making complicated things are hard and thus strive for simplicity. For a lot of programmers simplicity is harder than complexity. Here are a few advice on getting to completion, advice I extremely need to become a success.

4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion


Simplify to get it done.

“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” ~Wu-Men

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.

When I hear about a great idea that a friend has, I get excited. I can’t wait to see that idea become reality.
Then I ask about the idea a few months later, and it often is not one bit closer to completion.
Ideas stop short of becoming reality, and projects seem to drag on endlessly, because of one thing: complexity.
via 4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion | Zen Habits.

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rePost:: » Tips for Stress-Free Travel » The Art of Non-Conformity »

Nice set of advice. I learned the quoted advice implicitly from tonio and chuck. It came from observing that what’s important is the experience everything else should be in the background. What does this mean? Well bring lot’s of money and have a who cares attitude about money. Some caveats would be, at least for me.
Learn to haggle without being stressed (I needed to learn this)
some more travel advice:

  • Learn to ask for directions.
  • Learn if the area has a map (especially useful for introverts like me)/cultural/tourist office.
  • It’s not how many places you visit it’s about how happy you were when you visited those places. (Let the bad things slide)
  • You travel to travel not to tell other people about it, which basically means photos are there to remind you of the happy moments.
  • Basically BE IN THE MOMENT(I can still recall vividly the first panoramic view of the Mt Pinatubo crater lake or each second of the Dahilayan zipline, It was because I was so into the moment it was as if nothing else existed.)
  • Travel Light.  (This was taught to me by walking with 2 bags with a combine weight of around 25kg walking for more than 15km from davao’s eco bus station to the davao museum and to a few more places. When you are thinking of bringing anything just say to yourself YOU AREN’T GOING TO NEED IT)
  • Always carry change.
  • Dress down, dress comfortably. (I find that dressing down automatically signals to people you are asking for directions/advice to point you to the least expensive options.)

Spend more money. I often get stressed out spending small amounts of money. Overall, this isn’t always bad—it’s led to a healthy paranoia about debt and a lifelong adherence to frugality. However, it has its downsides too, in that I can spend hours walking around trying to decide what to eat, or hours trying to figure out the public transit system somewhere instead of just flagging down a taxi.
It only took me about 100 countries—I’m a slow learner—but I finally created a $10 rule for myself that has been rocking my world. The $10 rule is that when I’m traveling, I deliberately avoid worrying about most things that cost $10 or less. As I said, this makes a big difference. I actually eat three meals a day now. If I can’t find free WiFi, I’ll walk into a hotel and pay for the connection. SO MUCH LESS STRESS.
via The Art of Non-Conformity » Tips for Stress-Free Travel.

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Quote::The Case Against Credentialism – James Fallows

Wow we are being penalized for our reliability.  I have a strange feeling that data analyst / programmer / consultant would be closer to doctors/lawyers than engineers.

The newly organizing groups could call themselves professions, and not simply resurrected medieval guilds, because their members’ mastery of a new body of knowledge gave them claims to a competence beyond the amateur’s reach. Doctors could take advantage of the new breakthroughs in germ theory and anesthesia, engineers of refinements in industrial technology. “A strong profession requires a real technical skill that produces demonstrable results and can be taught,” a sociologist named Randall Collins wrote in a history of educational credentials. “the skill must be difficult enough to require training and reliable enough to produce results. But it cannot be too reliable enough to produce results. But it cannot be too reliable, for then outsiders can judge work by its results.” Indeed, when historians try to explain why engineers have never become as pretigious and independent as doctors or lawyers, one of their answers is that the engineer’s competence is too clearly on display. (When a patient dies, the doctor might not to be blame, but if a bridge, falls down, the engineer is.)
via The Case Against Credentialism – James Fallows.

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rrePost:: Invisible platform : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose :: The Long View

If machinery wins National Elections (I’m acutely aware that local elections can be won by a better party machinery) then Pichay should be a senator now. Obviously he isn’t. QED.
Wish people really call BS on these politicians. We would have a shorter news cast.

I have heard it said that Teodoro played a central role in formulating the NPC platform and he himself has been saying things that suggest familiarity with a draft platform. This has been particularly true in recent weeks, coinciding with the period work on a platform has been taking place, as Magno mentioned. The term “subsidiarity” that he mentioned at a recent forum is a vintage Christian Democratic one and is, surely, a hint of what the Lakas-Kampi-CMD platform might put forward. This inability to publish a platform means the ruling coalition believes Prospero Pichay’s statement that their candidate will win because of party machinery and not public sentiment.
via The Long View: Invisible platform : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose.

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rePost::‘Think twice,’ Ermita warns telcos – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

There was this The West Wing episode about a televised presidential debate. That episode is very meaningful here.
The Telcos are operating based on being able to use the electromagnetic spectrum. This is not their right but rather a massive gift to them from the government. To do something that is detrimental to our republic must also entail an equal or a more pronounced response. If they fear for their security then they have no right to enjoy the massive profits they get out of using a resource that is in some ways fully owned by the Filipino people. Withdrawal of support must mean withdrawal of use of the resource upon which the massive salaries of their executives/shareholders and workers are based on.

ON PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF POLL SUPPORT
‘Think twice,’ Ermita warns telcos
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:59:00 02/17/2010
Filed Under: Telecommunications Services, Elections, Eleksyon 2010
MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang on Wednesday cautioned telecommunications firms against backing out of its commitment to provide the main data center for the May election, saying national interest is at stake.
“I think they should think twice before they resort to what they say they may refuse because you know this thing involves the national welfare, it involves the national interest and very surely the Comelec would know what to do in order to ensure that the commitment under the contract will be fulfilled,” Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said.
The Palace executive was reacting to reports that Globe Telecoms and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, which owns Telecommunications, have proposed to withdraw its offer to setup a main data center in its offices for the transmission of election results in the May 10 polls.
The firms have expressed fears of physical attacks against their facilities during the election.
via ‘Think twice,’ Ermita warns telcos – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

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rePost::Innovation Lessons in "Start-Up Nation" – O'Reilly Radar

I think tis is beginning to happen at least in th IT industry. Some people are emerging as leaders who start events, etc to help people connect, and learn. Give it less than a decade and the lower level people like me would probably be in a position to create a bigger more community focused industry!!!!!

Traits that other countries can emulate


Although Israel has special advantages, some of the elements to which Senor and Singer trace its innovativeness can theoretically be achieved elsewhere. Briefly, these are:
A loyalty to the entire community that goes beyond personal success. The authors point out that, for all of Israelis' notorious fractiousness, they expend enormous effort helping total strangers. All of Israel is a single team, even a single family. (Obviously, this family feeling does not extend to non-Jews.) Israeli entrepreneurs who give talks abroad often play up the strengths of their country as well as their company.
via Innovation Lessons in “Start-Up Nation” – O’Reilly Radar.

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rePost::Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone – Yahoo! News

For parent friends!!!

Want Passionate Kids? Leave ’em Alone

via Want Passionate Kids? Leave ’em Alone – Yahoo! News.

Michael Torrice
LiveScience Contributor
livescience.com – Tue Feb 9, 8:50 am ET

Parents who want their children to discover a passion for music, sports, or other hobbies should follow a simple plan: Don’t pressure them.
By allowing kids to explore activities on their own, parents not only help children pinpoint the pursuit that fits them best, but they can also prevent young minds from obsessing over an activity, a new study finds.
“Passion comes from a special fit between an activity and a person,” said Geneviève Mageau, a psychology professor at the University of Montreal. “You can’t force that fit; it has to be found.”
The study focused on what psychologists call autonomy, the basic need to feel like you’re acting based on your own values and desires, not those of others. Controlling parents chip away at their child’s autonomy, by pushing them into a hobby, the researchers say. So when the kid picks up his clarinet it’s not out of a desire to play music, but due to a sense of obligation or a fear of disappointing his parents, according to Mageau.

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Elink Video:: We Can Live Anywhere by Big D And The Kids Table


A single guy’s post valentine’s hopefulness!
We Can Live Anywhere
by : Big D And The Kids Table
Oom dada, dada, oom dada, dada
If you don’t like the streets
Then that’s all you have to say to me
If you don’t like the coffee shops
Saying, the people aren’t as nice
Well, let’s get out of here
‘Cause you’ve never said to me
Your soul can’t breathe
We’ll live where we just smile most, yeah
No matter how far
We’ll find our nest of peace
‘Cause we can live anywhere
Yes we can live anywhere
Pack your things up c’mon let’s go
Didn’t you know we own this world?
Yeah we can live anywhere
You’re much happier when you sing
About how much you dig everything
We’ll live where we just joke the most yeah
Too far? No way man
We’ll find that nest of peace
Would you like to go today, London ain’t too far away
Would you like to go today, Paris ain’t too far away
Would you like to go today, for you nothing’s too far away