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World Cinema Foundation: Great website from Martin Scorsese dedicated to preserving and restoring neglected films from around the world. Most of them will be available for online viewing.
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” The space monkey continues, “Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
The Only Plan Is to Learn as You Go – Knowledge@Wharton
Ian MacMillan, Wharton professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, and Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, believe “the only plan is to learn as you go.”
They say
1) conventional approaches and planning don’t work when you’re trying to get into new spaces,
2) assumptions are what get most companies into trouble, and
3) it’s not failure that companies need to avoid, but rather “failing expensively.
Discovery-driven Growth: The Only Plan Is to Learn as You Go – Knowledge@Wharton
Now reading: God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.
In the book, Hitchens contends that religion is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercivetoward children." Hitchens supports his position with a mixture of personal stories, documented historical anecdotes and critical analysis of religious texts. His commentary focuses mainly on theAbrahamic religions, although he also touches on other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
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God is Not Great 1st Edition |
At Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_not_Great