…companies should consider hiring two part-time workers to do one full-time job. This way more people are employed, which is better for society.
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Will they be the ones commuting a couple of hours one way because they won’t be able to afford living near work?
Here’s a quotation from the book, The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam:
It was not a profession that offered a lot in the way of tranquillity. “My wife has a question she asked me every year for ten years,” Bill Parcells said back in 1993 when he was still married, “and she always worded it the same way: ‘Explain to me why you must continue to do this. Because the times when you are happy are so few.’ She has no concept.”
Halberstam, David (2012-07-17). The Education of a Coach (Kindle Locations 3736-3739). Hyperion. Kindle Edition.
It’s clear for some football coaches like Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, coaching is their calling. Does that mean you have to be happy all the time?
The participants who received the brief mindfulness meditation training reported reduced stress perceptions to the speech and math tasks, indicating that the mindfulness meditation fostered psychological stress resilience.
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That’s assuming you’re willing to sit still long enough.
Greenpeace’s strategy, which it calls “market-based campaigning,” has proved devastatingly effective. It goes like this: Pick an area of concern. Identify on-the-ground producers whose actions are contributing to the problem. Follow the supply chain to a multinational corporation that peddles a widely known consumer product. Send an email or two, kindly pointing out the company’s “exposure” and suggesting an alternative. Ask again, firmly but pleasantly. Issue a sober, meticulously researched public report. If the desired response is not forthcoming. roll out a clear, multipronged media campaign, ideally starring a beloved animal species and featuring a hashtag. Climb a building or two.
What seems to happen, inevitably, is the multinational company, eager to remove the stigma from its signature brand, promises to ensure that its products are sustainable and begins cancelling contracts with any third-party suppliers who fail to guarantee compliance. In order to retain the multinational’s lucrative business, the largest suppliers fall into line. Before long, as the cascade effect grows, they begin eyeing their wayward rivals, companies that are still operating in flagrant violation of the new rules and undercutting them with other customers. Eventually, broad new industry protocols are adopted to level the playing field.
Rinse, repeat.
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For those interested in supply chains, there are some good points made about how dependent companies are on supply chains.
Deforestation is another Greenpeace priority and affects the world supply of rattan, something that can have an impact on the world of design.
What do you do with a drone? Nearly all the same things you'd do with a conventional remote control airplane (fly it for fun), but there are a number of interesting things made possible by endowing a flying vehicle with robot brains. A farmer might use one to automatically conduct an aerial survey of his or her crops via the same exact route every day without even having to leave the house. Enterprising paparazzi might use a drone to sneak a celebrity shot from a non-obvious vantage point. Swedish scientists have even choreographed drones to "weave tensile structures" (read: build buildings out of fabric).
For now, the mainstream fun to be had with drones seems to be in outfitting them with cameras and flying around, watching the live video feed.
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Expect to see drones take off as Christmas gifts. Those and 3D printers.