January 2012
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How the Navy Seals Increased Passing Rates →
“Goal Setting - Mental Rehearsal - Self Talk - Arousal Control
With goal setting the recruits were taught to set goals in extremely short chunks. For instance, one former Navy Seal discussed how he set goals such as making it to lunch, then dinner. With mental rehearsal they were taught to visualize themselves succeeding in their activities and going through the...
November 2011
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“Instead of traditional salespeople, Palantir has what it calls forward deployed...”
– Palantir, the War on Terror’s Secret Weapon - BusinessWeek
October 2011
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The One Campaign: F*** famine | The Economist →
Celebrities exhort us to F**k famine”. But in Somalia the famine is caused by Radical islamists. Anyone for “Fuck Islamists”?
September 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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“Wherever terms have shifting meaning , independent sets of considerations are...”
– Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, from her notes “Sketch of the Analytical Engine” 1842. Quoted in The Shell Coders Handbook.
April 2011
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