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O Brasil passou uma semana de Geni na mão de celebridades estrangeiras por aqui. Depois de o músico e empresário Perry Farrell acusar o país de não ter educação musical --que ele estaria trazendo com seu festival Lollapalooza--, o filósofo Alain de Botton desandou a tuitar comentários pouco lisonjeiros que deram o que falar. Reclamou da chuva, da feiura das cidades, dos atrasos no aeroporto; chocou-se com a elite paulistana, com a "profunda desigualdade" do país e reproduziu comentários pouco elegantes sobre alguns de seus anfitriões. Quando conversou com a Folha , na manhã de ontem, Botton já estava mais bem impressionado --gostara muito do Rio, onde foi da mansão Moreira Salles ao Complexo do Alemão. Folha - O que achou do Brasil nessa primeira visita? Alain de Botton - É um pais fascinante, parece que estou aqui há um século, de tantas impressões.
Folha: No Brasil, Alain de Botton critica elite, caos de SP e desigualdade
A disponibilidade do acesso à internet em banda larga expõe as contradições das comunicações no Brasil. O país encerrou o ano com menos de 56 milhões de conexões de banda larga para uma população em torno de 190 milhões de habitantes. Estão inclusas as conexões fixas, móveis, residenciais e empresariais. Na telefonia fixa, a densidade também é baixa, com menos de 43 milhões de acessos.
Valor: banda larga expõe diversos Brasis
An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world's most popular consumer electronics. As well as working with companies like Dell, Motorola, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn assembles popular Apple products like the iPhone and iPad. Here's a quick look at what we know about Foxconn. (The company disputes workers' accounts of abusive conditions.
ProPublica: by the numbers: life and death at Foxconn
NYTimes: Thinking, Fast and Slow — by Daniel Kahneman
Human irrationality is Kahneman’s great theme. There are essentially three phases to his career. In the first, he and Tversky did a series of ingenious experiments that revealed twenty or so “cognitive biases” — unconscious errors of reasoning that distort our judgment of the world.
NYTimes: Arguably - Essays — by Christopher Hitchens
This fifth and, one fears, possibly last collection of his essays is a reminder of all that will be missed when the cancer is finished with him. Let’s begin with the obvious. He is unfathomably prolific.The Guardian: The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo
Thomas Hoepker chose not to publish this photograph in a book about 9/11. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Magnum In the photograph Thomas Hoepker took on 11 September 2001 , a group of New Yorkers sit chatting in the sun in a park in Brooklyn. Behind them, across brilliant blue water, in an azure sky, a terrible cloud of smoke and dust rises above lower Manhattan from the place where two towers were struck by hijacked airliners this same morning and have collapsed, killing, by fire, smoke, falling or jumping or crushing and tearing and fragmentation in the buildings' final fall, nearly 3,000 people. Ten years on, this is becoming one of the iconic photographs of 9/11, yet its history is strange and tortuous.
The New Yorker: Steve Jobs’s Real Genius
Based on the biography, Malcolm Gladwell profiles Steve Jobs as a tweaker. Jobs had an amazing ability to take things that had been built or invented or designed already and tweak them into something far better than the original.
Posted by Blackball Bill 109 days ago An anonymous career banker inside Goldman Sachs opened a twitter account ( @GSElevator ) with the intention of revealing the hilarious banter that takes place in the privacy of the GS elevators. Since then, the account has evolved to include things overheard on trading floors, bullpens, lobbies and bars. Some of the conversations involve more than one person, and the participants are distinguishable by their number (#1, #2, #3). Here are some of my favorites from the past several months…
TFM: overheard on the Goldman Sachs elevator
For some time a small but growing number of professors have employed fiction in studying ethics. Perhaps the most prominent exponent of that approach is the child psychiatrist Robert Coles of Harvard who argues that stories engage readers and stir “the moral imagination” in a manner that cannot be matched by other materials. Coles has employed The Great Gatsby at Harvard to examine ethics. A letter he received from a former Harvard Business School student suggests the power of literature to capture our moral attention: All of my friends are talking about Ivan Boesky. They want to know what made him tick.
Tony McAdams: The Great Gatsby as a business ethics inquiry
Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ [ 1 ] ( Sanskrit : ओं मणिपद्मे हूं , IPA: [õːː məɳipəd̪meː ɦũː] ) is the six syllabled mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan Jainraisig , Chinese Guanyin ), the bodhisattva of compassion. Mani means "the jewel" and Padma means "the lotus". In English the mantra is variously transliterated , depending on the schools of Buddhism as well as individual teachers.
Wikipedia: om mani padme hum