From The Economist
With populists in the driving seat, Italy is heading for
trouble
Both chambers of parliament are hung, with no easy or
quick way for anyone to achieve a majority. More alarming is that half of the
voters—fed up with high unemployment, stagnant wages, uncontrolled immigration
and a self-serving political class—voted for the two main populist parties, the
Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League. Both are hostile to the EU and
especially the euro, and both campaigned on lavish tax and spending promises
that Italy cannot afford.
Beppe Grillo, a part-time comedian who began his political career with the cry of vaffanculo! (fuck off!) to the establishment is the light behind the 5 star movement!
Italy shows that people vote as if it does not matter.
The Capitalist system takes care of everybody so we can vote in any crazy
person that when in power can’t do nothing crazy
Beppe
Grillo, a part-time comedian who began his political career with the cry of vaffanculo! (fuck off!) to
the establishment is the light behind the 5 star movement. Poor Italy!
i think people are a bit snozzy almost everything is getting cheaper, we can fly low cost, we can use UBER, food is cheaper in the supermarket the only problem in the world is that no ones needs us to work. Besides programmers & techies no one is really needed anymore perhaps football players and entertaining people. all the rest are interchangeable.
this is why people vote in crazy people as if it did not matter. The big job of Governments is to keep people entertained and busy.
Who has not yet recovered to pre crisis levels
I can't just speak for Portugal why did this happened? Because the Government increased taxes to 50% plus 24% Vat social security solidarity tax etc.... The Government spends the money of the people not the people.
One side of the debate suggests that development should focus on 'dividing the cake more fairly,' while the other says development should be focused on 'baking a bigger cake'
In Portugal we are specialist in dividing .
when you grow you get more money, when you don't grow your pay does not grow......
Looking the Part
Say you had the choice between
two surgeons of similar rank in the same department in some hospital. The first
is highly refined in appearance; he wears silver-rimmed glasses, has a thin
built, delicate hands, a measured speech, and elegant gestures. His hair is
silver and well combed. He is the person you would put in a movie if you needed
to impersonate a surgeon. His office prominently boasts an Ivy League diploma,
both for his undergraduate and medical schools.
The second one looks like a
butcher; he is overweight, with large hands, uncouth speech and an unkempt
appearance. His shirt is dangling from the back. No known tailor in the East
Coast of the U.S. is capable of making his shirt button at the neck. He speaks
unapologetically with a strong New Yawk accent, as if he wasn’t aware of it. He
even has a gold tooth showing when he opens his mouth. The absence of diploma
on the wall hints at the lack of pride in his education: he perhaps went to
some local college. In a movie, you would expect him to impersonate a retired
bodyguard for a junior congressman, or a third-generation cook in a New Jersey
cafeteria.
Now if I had to pick, I would
overcome my suckerproneness and take the butcher any minute. Even more: I would
seek the butcher as a third option if my choice was between two doctors who
looked like doctors. Why? Simply the one who doesn’t look the part,
conditional of having made a (sort of) successful career in his profession, had
to have much to overcome in terms of perception. And if we are lucky enough to have people who do not
look the part, it is thanks to the presence of some skin in the game, the
contact with reality that filters out incompetence, as reality is blind to
looks
Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game
Note: I don’t care about what people say, I care a lot
about how many times you have been doing something. My wife had a Sky accident
last year and damaged her Cruciate Ligament, total rupture. When we went to the
dr. Pedro Granate in Lisbon I just asked how many times he had done this
procedure. I remember he said something I will do 12 in the same week. I said
ok.
I don’t care about the looks I care a lot about
experience. Time removes the fragile and keeps the robust. Beware of the old
barber and the young doctor.
The key message: If you
want to be an effective leader, and rise in the ranks, get enough sleep.
HBR
Fatigue makes cowards of us all
— Vince Lombardi
Surprisingly, one group that doesn’t need to heed these warnings is executives. In our assessment of 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 more, we found that the more senior a person’s role is, the more sleep they get.HBR
I know that sleep is key for athletic performance, my coach don't want me to wake 3 hours before the start to eat. it's better to sleep 2 more hours! so we should do everything we can to sleep more. to me with 5 kids and a dog in house it's not easy. i know that sleep is key. i know that sleep = performance
Getting extra sleep over an extended period of time improves athletic performance, mood and alertness, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at the SLEEP 2008 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) in Baltimore, Md.
