You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Interestingly, the Measured Voice website describes the solution as providing a “distraction-free environment.” Despite working in Measured Voice for months, that aspect never occurred to me. And now I realize it’s a great benefit. It eliminates the “shiny object” aspect of the Twitter stream.
Kelley Kassa, in Measured Voice: A New Tool for your Social Media Activities
Yessss. I choose to accept this as high praise: the app was so simple and straightforward that the person using it only noticed it in retrospect.
That’s what I aspire to: people who say my software “just works.”
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First female Afghan pilot graduates.
Afghan Air Force 2nd Lt. Niloofar Rhmani walks the flightline at Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan prior to her graduation from undergraduate pilot training May 13, 2013. Rhmani made history May 14, 2013 when she became the first female to successfully complete undergraduate pilot training and earn the status of pilot in more than 30 years. She will continue her service as she joins the Kabul Air Wing as a Cessna 208 pilot.
I made salted caramel coffee ice cream. It was my first time making salted caramel or coffee ice cream. I fused this salted caramel ice cream recipe with this coffee ice cream recipe to make it. It’s very good, but maybe a little too good. I need to tone it down.
A few lessons:
Procurement is slow because Congress and governments around the world have embedded so many safeguards and administrative procedures to make it objective, unbiased, fair, effective, incorruptible, that what you end up with is an intricate system that only business insiders and administration officials understand. For that very reason, that system is inherently anti-competitive. You have to be a Beltway insider, or a version of those characters in other countries, to do business with government.
One of the worrying aspects (seemingly largely overlooked by Joe Public) to come out of the Angelina Jolie story is that the BRCA gene she possesses, the one that means breast cancer is such a risk, is patented by a US company. This means said company have exclusive rights to tests for that gene, and charge obscene amounts for the test, which is potentially life-saving.
Yale partners with Coursera to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Provost Benjamin Polak has announced a partnership with Coursera, the creation of a standing committee of online education, and the appointment of Professor Craig Wright to the newly created position of Academic Director of Online Education.
Get the full details of Yale’s new online learning initiatives →
Thinking I might go to Yale now.
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