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A Labour activist recounts his success not following the rules. This is interesting well beyond British party politics. Rule 1: Treat people like adults.
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How the history of Tasmania demonstrates that isolation doesn't just kill innovation it sets it in reverse. Or as I'm fond of saying relationships before ideas.
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"In my experience (yes, as I said, hard-won experience), obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil “distractions,” and constantly reassessing which shiny new “system” might make your life suddenly seem more sensible–these are all terri?cally useful warning ?ares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem." (HT JMLT https://bit.ly/aLwpju )
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Shoes developed to protect our feet but there are unintended consequences… (via Dave Pollard's blog)
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Interesting angle on the gulf oil spill and the perils of taking behavioural economics too far

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in