Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Travel Independent thinks it has “everything you need to know about independent budget travel”. After just a quick browse of its many sections (’What to Pack’, ‘Where to Go’, ‘Before You Go’, ‘Country Summaries’, and ‘On the Road’), I’m inclined to agree.
But how much is this going to cost you? For a quick guesstimate, Saving for Travel is your pal.
Thanks Andy
You may have noticed that I’ve recently been fascinated by everything cognitive bias. With the release of Nudge—a book looking at how politicians around the world are using cognitive bias—the general public are now going to be hearing about it a lot more too.
The Times has a nice case-study where the theories are used to guide the public on the issue of environmentalism and ‘going green’. This quote sums up what I believe are many of the public’s thoughts on the many ongoing green campaigns:
Like millions of others, Heath had found that simply being told she ought to save energy had little effect on her habits – and she actively resents the idea of being punished for disobeying government diktats on environmentalism. Drive a big car? You’re bad – pay a penalty.
via Mind Hacks
BBC Business’ How to Write a Business Plan has some sound advice for that basic business plan. However, being written by a multi-national corporation, I had an inkling that it wasn’t going to be very—I hate saying this—Web 2.0, so I went to the usual suspects.
This Ask Y Combinator thread has some good advice and further resources. I was expecting this:
Instead the comment got debunked numerous times.
Extra-special resources include: Sequoia Capital’s ‘Ideas’ and Paul Graham (of Y Combinator) on Viaweb’s first business plan.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been scouring Microsoft’s internal emails (released through various law suits) looking for an insight into Gates’ personality and to get a picture of his role at the top of Microsoft.
From this epic email rant, it is obvious that even Gates himself isn’t immune.
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? [...] What an absolute mess.
The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low…
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