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Alain de Botton: The Glass of Life is Half Empty
TED Talk - Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
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Louis Hyman lecture on his book Borrow: The American Way of Debt [H/T Matt] (LINK) Brain Pickings discusses Atul Gawande's Being Mortal (LINK) Heather Capital: How a $600 Million Hedge Fund Disappeared (LINK) On-the-record remarks by Claudio...
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- Leading@google: Tony Hsieh (july 2010)
Tony Hsieh visits Google in Mountain View to talk about his new book - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Link...
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Profit Margins Don’t Matter: Ignore Them, and Focus on ROEs Instead (LINK) Michael Lewis reviews Tim Geithner’s book Stress Test (LINK)Related book: Stress Test: Reflections on Financial CrisesLessons From Cable Cowboy John Malone (LINK)Related book:...
- Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness
We tend to accept that people in authority must be right. It’s this assumption that Socrates wanted us to challenge by urging us to think logically about the nonsense they often come out with, rather than being struck dumb by their aura of importance...
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TED Talk - Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
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Related previous posts:
TED Talk - Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
Related talk: Alain de Botton On Religion for Atheists (and the book is HERE)
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Louis Hyman lecture on his book Borrow: The American Way of Debt [H/T Matt] (LINK) Brain Pickings discusses Atul Gawande's Being Mortal (LINK) Heather Capital: How a $600 Million Hedge Fund Disappeared (LINK) On-the-record remarks by Claudio...
- The Advanced Metrics Of Attraction - By John Allen Paulos
Link to: The Advanced Metrics of Attraction The essayist Alain de Botton has been writing a great deal lately about crushes, those sudden infatuations aroused by the merest of stimuli — the way she subtly rolls her eyes at a blowhard’s pronouncements,...
- Leading@google: Tony Hsieh (july 2010)
Tony Hsieh visits Google in Mountain View to talk about his new book - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Link...
- Links
Profit Margins Don’t Matter: Ignore Them, and Focus on ROEs Instead (LINK) Michael Lewis reviews Tim Geithner’s book Stress Test (LINK)Related book: Stress Test: Reflections on Financial CrisesLessons From Cable Cowboy John Malone (LINK)Related book:...
- Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness
We tend to accept that people in authority must be right. It’s this assumption that Socrates wanted us to challenge by urging us to think logically about the nonsense they often come out with, rather than being struck dumb by their aura of importance...