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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates People

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By Daniel H. Pink

Original Source: The RSA Animate: ‘DRIVE – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us’

Wordless Wednesday

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The 25 Smartest Things that Steve Jobs Said.

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I found Morgan Housel’s splendid blog post on the Web. I took the liberty of excerpting his content below.

This is a quoting of the late Steve Jobs and 25 of his most compelling philosophies.

 

25. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed saying we’ve done something wonderful … that matters to me.”

24. “I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list … That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And a man on a bicycle blew the condor away. That’s what a computer is to me: the computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

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Devs Are Smart.

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The Programming Life Cycle

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Wordless Wednesday

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Bugs.

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‘Seinfeld’ Is the Most Popular English Password?

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This is fascinating. The most common passwords in North America are:

  • seinfeld
  • password
  • 123456
  • princess
  • peanut
  • shadow
  • ginger
  • michael
  • sunshine
  • tigger
  • bailey

This is according to I.T. expert, Troy Hunt, who analyzed the hacker results of the recent Sony Pictures and Sony Playstation network attacks. Troy’s results are very interesting as he lifts the hood on what people use for passwords. Read more about Troy’s analysis here…

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