“You’ll have a much better sense of your candidate if you get them out from behind a desk and watch how they behave.”
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Bill Gates Thinks the Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes
“The technology and business cases for replacing humans in a wide range of jobs are arriving simultaneously, and it’s important to be able to manage that displacement.”
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” — Steve Jobs
How To Manage Your Email Using The “Yesterbox” Technique
“Your to-do list each day is simply yesterday’s inbox.”
What Makes Your Life Meaningful?
“Author Emily Esfahani Smith kept coming across the same themes when coming up with her theory on what makes life meaningful. Both in her research, in the scientific literature, and in her conversations with regular people, four things kept coming up: belonging, purpose, narrative, and transcendence.”
Make Positivity Louder
“What’s happening is the small minority of people that are mad, and angry, and hateful, and dark are much louder than the big percentage of us that are happy, and excited, and feel great. I feel like as somebody who’s full of bright light and happiness that I need to start getting louder about that as well because that’s the only way we’re going to combat it.”
Why We Fear Terrorism More Than We Should
“Americans are more afraid of terrorism than they are of guns, despite the fact that guns are 3,210 times more likely to kill them.”
7 Ways Algorithms Are Going To Change Your Life
“38% of these particular respondents predicted that the positive impacts of algorithms will outweigh negatives for individuals and society in general, while 37% said negatives will outweigh positives; 25% said the overall impact of algorithms will be about 50–50, positive-negative.”
The Death of Objectivity
“We can check our facts, tell the truth, and hold the line without pretending that there is no ethical basis to the work that we do.”
How And Why You Should Connect With People In Other Industries
“What really benefits you — in terms of new ideas — and expanding your perspective, is accessing new talent pools. I’m talking about the one percent of the most talented people in their industry, not yours.”