Via Business Insider:
These essential books serve as an excellent study in the success (and failure) of tech companies and the history of how we got where we are with computers.
If you want to know how we got to where we are today.
Best Technology Books
Formatting Rules To Get Your Resume Through The Scanning Software
Via Business Insider:
Here are some formatting rules that Gillis says job seekers should follow to create a filtering software-friendly resume:
Do not place your contact information in the header of your resume, because filtering softwares can be set to ignore headers and footers so there is a risk this information will be deleted.
Choose a conservative font such as Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, or Calibri. Gillis says that serif fonts, such as Times Roman or Cambria may be rejected by screening software.
Do not use any script fonts.
The smallest font size to use for the body of your resume should be 11 point. "Any smaller and you're probably asking for trouble."
No graphics or logos.
Do not format using tables.
No borders.
A one-inch margin top and bottom is best.
- Do not use any lines that cross the entire page from margin to margin, because "some filters have been created that will reject a document for nothing more than having a single line run continuously across the page," he writes.
Formatting Rules To Get Your Resume Through The Scanning Software - Business Insider
Leda and the swan for the 21st century
Via Vimeo. The Leda/swan trope would be more compelling than the wolf image in the video.
Making the blind see
Via The Atlantic:
There hasn't been much that science has been able to do to help those who suffer from RP. While those afflicted with deafness might be able to turn to devices like cochlear implants to improve their hearing, those who suffer from retinal degeneration haven't been so lucky. Until now.
Enter the Argus II, a retinal prosthesis. Since RP affects only the retina, leaving the optic nerve intact, the bionic eye is able to substitute for the eye's natural photoreceptors by directly stimulating the retina's remaining cells -- which in turn pass the signal to the optic nerve. The device, developed by the firm Second Sight and already approved for use in Europe, just got approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
The U.S. Just Got Its First Bionic Eye - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
Why Bureaucratic Managers Are Essential
Via Business Insider:
Most of us, write Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan in their new book The Org: The Underlying Logic Of The Office, "imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise where workers are unshackled by pointless bureaucracy… a place where stuff actually gets done". Strangely, managers tend to agree.
Points:
- “What employees see as "pointless bureaucracy" is a company acting rationally to survive. There are bad managers, of course – but at least some of the bureaucratic crap, from this perspective, is intrinsic. Remove it and the organization collapses.”
- “Get real, Fisman and Sullivan say: much of what we object to is just what happens when groups work together. If you really can't stand bureaucracy, there's self-employment, which brings different hassles, or working only for small organisations. But don't hanker for organizational life without management nonsense. That can't exist – and surely it's better to make career decisions on the basis of that reality.”
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