Ever Imagined a World Without Internet? [INFOGRAPHIC] Steve Carrell may be seeking a friend for the end of the world, but here at Mashable, we're more concerned with the end of the Internet. Can you imagine it? Instead of an iPad, you'd be clutching a weighty $1,200 Encyclopedia Brittanica as you rock yourself to sleep. And instead of tweeting with pals halfway around the world, we'd be licking stamps that would total $6.3 trillion in the United States alone. SEE ALSO: The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC] Online Education created this graphic detailing the nightmare that would be the world without Internet. What would be your biggest nightmare in a world without Internet? Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, JamesBrey
Interview with Nader Khalili, Cal-Earth Architect Nader Khalili began his career in Iran. By the 1970’s he headed a thriving practice specializing in skyscrapers with offices in Tehran and Los Angeles. But as the decade came to a close, he felt he'd lost his center. He gave up his lucrative practice and spent five years traveling the desert regions studying the vernacular architecture of his native country. In this interview, conducted in March 2005, Khalili talks about designing Lunar housing, working with the U.N., and his decision to abandon conventional wisdom and run his own race. Q: How did you start doing this kind of work? I really had a dream in my mind. I said ‘What if I set fire to earth buildings? When I closed my business I already had ten years of experience. Then I thought, why can't he race alone? Ceramic houses that was what I went after. When Iraq was bombing Iran, I was firing a school, and we were not supposed to have any light at night because of air raids. It’s not the time that arrives with an idea.
A Father's Advice: F. Scott Fitzgerald on What to Worry About In the hundreds of letters authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald that have been collected, we have this one dated August 8, 1933. In it, he offered the following advice to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, while she was away at camp. It is still good advice today. I feel very strongly about you doing duty. Would you give me a little more documentation about your reading in French? All I believe in in life is the rewards for virtue (according to your talents) and the punishments for not fulfilling your duties, which are doubly costly. Half-wit, I will conclude. With dearest love, On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein, Illustrated by the Great Vladimir Radunsky by Maria Popova The charming visual tale of an introverted little boy who grew up to become the quintessential modern genius. Given my soft spot for picture-book and graphic-novel accounts of famous lives, including Charles Darwin, Julia Child, Hunter S. The story begins with Albert’s birth — a beautiful but odd baby boy who turns one and doesn’t say a word, turns two, then three, and nary a word. Instead, he “just looked around with his big curious eyes,” wondering about the world. One day, when Albert was sick in bed, his father brought him a compass — a small round case with a magnetic needle inside. This was that pivotal spark of curiosity that catapulted his young mind into a lifetime of exploring those mysteries. Young Albert began asking countless questions at home and at school — so much so, that his teachers chastised him for being a disturbance, admonishing the little boy that he would get nowhere in life unless he learned to follow the rules and behave like the other kids.
Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog This is a post by David Dotlich, Chairman and CEO of Pivot Leadership. He is a co-author of The Unfinished Leader: Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems with Peter Cairo and Cade Cowan. To be a leader today in almost any organization means you are daily, if not hourly, bombarded with problems and challenges that don’t have clear-cut “right” answers. Just to be clear: I am not talking about conflict as it refers to disagreement over how to make a decision in which the facts point to a clear outcome, or personal disputes in which one or the other party feels slighted or bruised. In my 30+ years of work as a leadership executive and coach for Fortune 500 companies, as well as through interviews with 100 CEOs and top leaders, I’ve identified five effective ways to successfully manage conflict when faced with paradox:
YC Sim's Blog - Making the Jump: my journey from Flash games to desktop games! The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. A few years ago, I made the huge decision to leave a comfortable, well-paying engineering job with a fairly large oil and gas firm to pursue a career as a game developer. In my country, Malaysia, that's a pretty strange career choice, in a land where many parents consider engineering and medicine as coveted jobs for their children. I don't make a life decision like that very lightly, of course, and I was already making sponsored games in my spare time by the time I left my job. First, a quick summary of my understanding of the Flash game market and the game developer's place in it, for those who are considering it as a career choice. I read in a PC Gamer article about the existence of Kongregate back when it first started in 2007, and decided to try my luck with a few unsponsored games.
A Random Act Of “Wow” I was pretty exhausted when I checked into the Embassy Suites hotel in Maryland last night. I was greeted politely, they found my reservation quickly (always a good thing) and then it happened . . . I was told that I had been selected as their guest of the day! Well son of a freakin gun, not even 30 seconds before I was simply Paul Castain and now I morphed into the Embassy Suites Guest of The Day. I’m not going to lie . . . Here’s what they gave me . . . A bag of all kinds of snacks . . . here’s the bag, minus the snacks Free internet . . . A certificate which I was thinking about waving around the lounge in the same way Wayne and Garth waved their backstage passes in Wayne’s world. A letter informing me of my “Guest of The Day” status! Here’s the bottom line folks . . . Appreciating a customer with a “random act of wow” doesn’t have to break the bank! I wonder if this is something you could utilize in your business somehow? A client of the day or week or what have you. A bag of goodies?
LinkedIn Best Advice Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald I am a long way from Australia at present. I am based in Amsterdam, and have been travellin in Lithuania and a quick trip to Karlsruhe. But I was asked to write something about Australian democracy, which I found difficult to be frank. I am not a political scientist nor an Australian historian, but here are some thoughts dating back to August: On 16 August 2011, there was a public meeting at St Peter’s Town Hall in Sydney’s inner west. Their fears resonated with concerns of farmers and communities across the Liverpool Plains. On 14 August 2011, the words ‘Dalian’ and ‘PX’ were disabled (or rather scanned for removal) on Sina Weibo, the extraordinary Chinese microblog network. In August 2011, Dalian had become a city seething with anger over petrochemical pollution. Taken together, one can see that defiance, demonstration, and a sense of the greater good are not confined to one type of regime. Several false starts later, here we are.
SkyFolio » So you want to work from home? Some of my students asked for tips about climbing the corporate ladder but truth be told, I hate the corporate ladder. Every time I find myself getting promoted, I end up resigning shortly after — even from my best employers. I had been a work-from-home person for most of my career because I usually earn money from writing and doing art/tech when I find myself getting tired of the corporate world. For 2013, my typical week is roughly: Mondays: (At home) Prepare lectures for 3 hours + do game production work for 5 hoursTuesdays to Thursdays: Teach / do academic admin work for 3 hours + (at home) do production work for 5 hoursFridays: (At home) Do game production work or write research + run errandsSaturday: Industry meetings Depending on which part of the quarter, there could be more academic work load than production work load. It sounds like I have a lot of free time, but this setup actually requires a lot of discipline. 5. 4. Just make sure that you stick to your calendar/planner. 3. 2.