My staff is my most important asset, Bullshit!!!

"I noticed that the dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1. Given that, you're well advised to go after the cream of the cream. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players."

Steve Jobs

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it.
Michael O'Leary


My view: They are both right. Most people are overpaid, can be replaced by a computer and are a cost with demands and problems associated but if you can hire an A player it makes a huge difference CR7 or Michael Jordan in the Bull’s not only play very well they raise everybody’s game. An A player is worth it big time.
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it's better to be rich than poor !

i know it's better to be rich, wealthy and handsome than poor , sick and ugly but not everyone agrees. I like to look at this graph.

 there is another important point where do you live makes a big big difference. it pays to move to a big city. Life is better , more opportunities and less social pression. you can do whatever you want.




Image result for very happy us national surveys
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According to citi not yet time to throw the towel !


According to citi not yet time to throw the towel !

 Despite the recent volatility, a checklist of stock market indicators is flashing few sell signals indicating the current correction should be bought, according to Citigroup Inc.

 my take is the following, i was going to buy if today we open gap down, it looks that is not going to happen . I am writing this monday early morning.

 however if the market closes below February lows all bets are off i don't care about Citi i will trow the towel.

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Coding schools are the new MBAs

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Aaron Patzer

Coding schools are the new MBAs

A world run on software demands new skills and new schools.


i guess the world changed a bit, people are not just worried about the package/marketing/image but what the product does for you. In this world it's better to have an engeneer than a bulshiter.
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Cambridge Analytica scandal for dummies

I was trying to figure out what is the scandal? No one can explain to me.... people just speak about manipulation and some other buzzwords.

 i guess for a political campaign to send emails trying to influence your vote it's what they do. President Obama apparently used the internet with great efficacy.

 So this is the scandal from A to Z

 In June 2014, a researcher named Aleksandr Kogan developed a personality-quiz app for Facebook. It was heavily influenced by a similar personality-quiz app made by the Psychometrics Centre, a Cambridge University laboratory where Kogan worked. About 270,000 people installed Kogan’s app on their Facebook account. But as with any Facebook developer at the time, Kogan could access data about those users or their friends. And when Kogan’s app asked for that data, it saved that information into a private database instead of immediately deleting it. Kogan provided that private database, containing information about 50 million Facebook users, to the voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica used it to make 30 million “psychographic” profiles about voters.
So this Guy Alexander Kogan developed an app with a quiz and when you dowloaded it to your Facebook it stole your messages, photos and of all your friends. Smart guy!

 Fault 1- Facebook should not let this to happen but Facebook contests

  “No systems were infiltrated, no passwords or information were stolen or hacked,” tweeted one Facebook executive. For its part, Facebook says it learned about Kogan’s private database in 2015, when it removed his app and demanded that he and any of his partners delete the data.

 Then Kogan sold this database to Cambridge Analytica and they profiled  30 million users of the 50 million data set's. This guy loves fishing, this one is a cyclist, this one......

 Then they emailed people knowing a bit about them. I guess the idea must be 

 if you know that person A thinks 1,2, and 3 you send an email saying if you think 1, 2 and 3 please vote for TRUMP don't hesitate

 for person B that thinks 4,5, and 6 you send a different version.

 is that it?  I thought there was something criminal here but that was not the case.

 Conclusion for me

 To me Facebook is a wonderful tool to keep up with your friends
Facebook will change some things and this situation will never happen again
different breach of data will happen but not this one
if you don't want your pics all over the place don't publish anything

 Advice

 when someone approaches you and they know a bit about you be careful! 




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Progress is going to accelerate !

Cancer mortality has been falling steadily but slowly in the last 30 years. I expect with computers and the net (sharing of research) we  will start to move faster. I am sure this is the case. There is money, there is a market there is the necessity. capitalism will present the product or products that will solve this huge problem.


Mortality per 100,000 per year 
https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2018/17_0284.htm#table1_up
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2 Ideas for Today


Commit to being great, not just average. Any industry can be a painful profession for average and bottom performers, but massively rewarding for those that are great. Those that live, breathe and eat their profession, those that are obsessed, become great.

Grant Cardone

Bad Career Advice: Do What You Love and You'll Never Work a Day
Oh man, this one kills me. It’s so frequently repeated that hardly anyone questions its truth anymore. And the sad fact is this: If you do what you love for a living, you’ll probably end up loving it a little bit less.

Chrissy Scivicque, FORBES


I agree with this two thoughts my view is to be of service, do something that the world wants and needs and you will be fine. Do what you love just ruins what you love. I love to ride my bike but if i had to Chaperone groups of tourists at a sub par pace i would probably hate it.
a job it's a job and if you invest a bit one day you would love it (the other way around)


the view from my window this morning

enjoy a great day
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