Jan. 10, 2012 at 9:53am View comments
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Any business that ignores these transformations does so at its own peril. Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is roaring ahead. The frictionless spread of information and the expansion of personal, corporate, and global networks have plenty of room to run. And here’s the conundrum: When businesspeople search for the right forecast—the road map and model that will define the next era—no credible long-term picture emerges. There is one certainty, however. The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos.
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company

So many things I could quote from this article. A very good read. (Except for the introduction of yet another generational term… the whole “generation this” and “generation that” is getting old.)

Jan. 6, 2012 at 12:59pm View comments
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Living Social is likely the fastest growing technology business in Washington, DC that’s run into a problem: they cannot find engineers in the DC area quickly enough. So instead of uprooting and moving to Silicon Valley or some other more tech-dense city, Living Social is taking a different approach. They’re trying to create more developers. Hungry Academy’s goal is to take 24 driven people without development skill, and turn them into developers. And they’ll employ them, full-time, while they’re undergoing training.
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Information Diet | Why Hungry Academy Matters

This is brilliant. And another sign that higher education is not only overpriced, but increasingly out of touch. Rack up student loan debt for a degree that may not even teach you the real world of programming, or earn a living while learning from people in the industry?

I know my choice. We’re in the thick of paying Carl’s loans, yet almost everything he learned about real-world development he either taught himself since middle school or learned on the job. (And the people who learn this way are the ones you really want to hire anyway. A degree does not a student make.)

Jan. 3, 2012 at 4:49am with 3,131 notes View comments
Reblogged from seeherwrite
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I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t …disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
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Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)

BOOM

YOU JUST GOT KNOWLEDGE’D

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