> One hundred twenty-five astronaut autobiographies, interviews, and oral histories were content analyzed and scored for references to values (Schwartz, 1992). The current study extended methods tested in 2 pilot studies of space veterans from many nations, of both sexes, and with different experiences within the history of human spaceflight. Value references reflected a high…more
Elad Gil wrote a great piece on how to benefit from your investors, but I think the advice holds true for getting help from any advisor. I know friends who have a personal “board of advisors”, and others who schedule regular checkins with their mentors.
Sometimes adults need help with this: > This week thirty of us have promised to keep a daily crayon journal, build a fort or play with bubbles, and go out of our way to notice and welcome any children we see. I love ReIMAGINE.
Some really interesting stuff in [this interview with the Zynga founder](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31corner.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=business&adxnnlx=1285247019-gq6birhNA76fZ8BrckORLg&pagewanted=all): > One thing I did at my second company was to put white sticky sheets on the wall, and I put everyone’s name on one of the sheets, and I said, “By the end of the week, everybody needs to write what you’re C.E.O….more
> What is context? It’s the operating framework in which the content occurs — the goal, one might say. For example, the design of the Apollo lunar module was content. The goal of landing a man on the moon in nine years was the context. You will get a completely different result from engineers working…more
Pick a year and see what was recorded then. Here are videos from the year I was born.. Looks like I just missed out on the last solar eclipse to hit North America for 38 years.
There’s something really magical about this; jump to a random eye-level view of almost any street in the world: Globe Genie – Joe McMichael.