Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania. Angela studies non-IQ competencies that predict success both academically
and professionally. Her research populations have included West Point cadets, National
Spelling Bee finalists, novice teachers, salespeople, and students.
2 Excellent Web Designer Inspiration Resources
http://patterntap.com/ | http://dribbble.com/
Both good resources to get exposed to nice web design ideas.
Came across this while reading the brilliant blog at http://www.nirandfar.com/ - which discusses behavioral engineering.
The Google Partner Connect
We recently became a Google Premium Publisher Partner and I had a meeting with the Global and Asia heads of their online partnerships group. They wanted feedback on what’s happening and ideas for future products… 
Here’s some of the stuff we spoke about…
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Adobe’s Browser Lab is probably the best cross browser checking tool I’ve ever used. Fewer options in terms of the number of browsers and resolutions covered but most major ones are present. The best feature, other than the user interface, is the onion skin display which overlays each image screenshot to show you the differences.
#Sopa #Censorship Show them the money!
Power sits on top of humanity because it exists to control human flaws. Human beings are corrupt by nature - most would rather not do many of the seemingly right things - like pay for books, movies, music - which is why we need laws.
The SOPA idea is simply devious - it’s easier to shut down the site (Facebook, Google, Youtube… any site really) - than to go after the users. But it’s obvious that, with this law it’ll be easy to frame any company, it can actually effectively be used to find violations on all the government sites - of course they would put in a clause to keep them away from the ambit of this law.
It’s probably more important to try to create a law to force the media and technology companies to work together. We have in our hands possibly the greatest distribution channel ever made - use it!
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Zomato may change something very fundamental - #food
Every now and then there is a company which has the potential to change or rather inspire quality by showing organizations a promise of more business. Zomato is right now at that place, where they have a statistically significant amount of data on Indian restaurants to help create a change.
Not many years ago - eating out in India was almost always concluded with some form of unhappy abdominal pressure. Having the restaurants care about a rating will make them cleaner and possibly even make them look into innovating unique offerings. But there seems to be some fundamental problem in the system of rating and this can be improved in some ways… It’s a long list but please read slowly and carefully to understand the ideas…
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Very old documentary about Next - the company Steve Jobs created. The video contains a lot of footage from their internal retreat meetings when the company was being formed. It was a NeXT Computer that was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN that became the world’s first web server. Apple later acquired NeXT and got Steve Jobs back eventually.
Very modern and accurate depiction of our state of affairs.
The Last Question - eerie!
Complete at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54421334/last.png
