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Time circa 2019
I looked up at the wall from my computer screen and my calendar smiled back with 2021.
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The forgotten art of fun at work
For all the times we ecourage a lack of sugar-coating, we forget to encourage teams to say things kinds things. For all the times we encourage efficiency, we forget to encourage teams to enjoy the process. For all the times we encourage risk-taking, we forget to encourage teams to receive failures with a smile. For…
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Google's new father-son ad will make you cringe
Take 1: Lover On Nov 19, 2009, Google posted an ad to Youtube titled ‘Parisian Love’. It encapsulated all the emotional highs and lows of living with Google Search. It is one of tech’s best ads ever made. The beauty of this ad was that it was not presumptuous. It painted a picture of a…
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She works on a park bench
A scene in 2019 A woman sits on a park bench, writing in her notebook. Another types on her phone. Our perception is that the former is noble, and the latter a drone. Is this because we romanticize the old? Is there something unsettling about the multitude of activities possible on an obscure device? Afterall,…
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Working around Google's reign on education
The question of whether Google impacts the way people learn is as old as Google itself. Opinions about its pros and cons are in constant flux. Fantasizing about retreating into our luddite shells of looking up information in the library is not productive. To live in today’s reality of information retrieval is to be a…