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Strong Optical Illusion – Green
Your Eyes Cheat Your Brain To check, use any graphics tool you like, that green and blue are actually the same color.
Iranian Riot Policeman Captured by Protestors – Youtube
From the anonymous server hosted by the folks at Pirate Bay. Turns out as best as you can hope: Riot cop stops beating people and is given a bottle of water. Via iran.whyweprotest.net
Optical Illusion – Ames window
Keep your eyes on the stick to see what’s really going on: Via Kottke
Burnout: The adult kind
Burnout Web professionals are often expected to be ‘always on’—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an ‘always on’ life can be debilitating. (Via A List Apart.)
Remote Workers
The Pond: “ ‘Can I work remote?’ I cringe. It’s Ian and Ian is a senior engineer. He’s a rock. He gets it done. I never have to ask him twice and, after six years, Ian has every right to ask to work remote. But I’m still freaked because my first thought when anyone asks [...]
Specs Influence Purchasing Behavior
Product Specifications Influence Consumer Preference: “ A new study in the April 2009 issue of Journal of Consumer Research reveals that our purchasing decisions are susceptible to the influence of external descriptions. When we shop, we may spend too much when we base our decisions on product specifications. The researchers found that ‘even when consumers [...]
Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity
Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity: “‘People who do surf the internet for fun at work — within a reasonable limit of less than 20 per cent of their total time in the office — are more productive by about nine per cent than those who don’t,’ said Coker. (Via Slashdot.)
Is Your Company Designed for Humans?
Is Your Company Designed for Humans? – Peter Merholz – HarvardBusiness.org: …The companies that do best in serving others are those that do best in serving themselves. (Via Harvard Business.org.)
Managing To-Dos While Remaining Focused On Professional Growth
From Michael Lopp: The curse of any effective task management system is that you get really good at capturing, prioritizing, and executing tasks. To the point that you start to believe that merely completing a task is helping your career. After a solid decade of rampant task management, I realized I needed to augment tasks [...]
Motivation Versus Inspiration
Inspiration is “better” than motivation. It’s the carrot versus the stick. I’ve seen in my life how often a desire to do something evaporates in the face of someone trying to motivate me to do it. Now part of that is just the mule in me, but it speaks to a fundamental difference in perspective [...]
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