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No Schedules, No Meetings—Enter Best Buy’s ROWE - Part 2 - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss (9)
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(Photo: badboy69) This is continued from Part 1 of my exclusive first blog interview with the co-developers of Best Buy’s results-only work environment, which has increased output at headquarters 41% and decreased quitting up to 90% in some divisions. When you take care of your life, do you develop overcomplicated processes for getting things done? Do you spend your free time coming up with systems and programs for buying birthday presents or making dinner or ...Shared by Alan (12) Bob (17) Broadbandito (2) cory huff (0) Devin Reams (0) Florian (11) Holly (0) Jeff Schoolcraft (2) Mike P (0)- Bob said: I like this philosophy...
- Holly said: I like this concept and am happy to see some business leaders at the forefront demonstrating that time at the office does not equal productivity. It just makes sense to me that putting people in charge of their lives, giving them space to do the work in a way that helps them be happy and productive will result in healthier, happier people and healthier companies. Motivation by coercion is, I think, having a terrible cost in companies. I hope this takes off fast!!
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Windows XP: Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Your Windows XP Installation CD (7)
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Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to download 176 new updates from Microsoft. If your XP installation CD is older than 2004, once your system is online, you'll have to wait for hefty service packs to download, chained to your mouse while pushing the Next button, watching progress bars, ...Contribute comment -
Flying Stephen Hawking into zero g: Peter Diamandis on TED.com (2)
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X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 04:01.) Watch Peter Diamandis' 2008 talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances -- including Stephen Hawking's 2008 TEDTalk about humanity's greatest questions. Read ...Shared by haynes (1) Holly (0)Contribute comment -
Brain magic: Keith Barry on TED.com (7)
onFirst, magician Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, California. Duration: 19:49.) Watch Keith Barry's 2004 performance on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances. Read more about Keith Barry ...Shared by Cathryn Hrudicka (5) efKoreman (11) Holly (0) iAlja (23) J. Abdul-Qahhar (24) Pengas (4) Sam (13)Contribute comment
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Updates to Gmail contact manager (96)
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Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager Engineer, Google Contacts TeamWe've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete. We wanted to preserve this benefit while giving you the ability to have a clean, uncluttered contact list, and we've come up with a solution that's rolling ...Shared by $udhi™ (1) Adam Lasnik (1) Ákos (PozAko) (57) Ali (2) Andy C (6) Angus (42) Ashwin (5) Bananalope (8) Bennett (1) Bill (0) billrod (1) camson (1) Cédric Merland (9) cgsheldon (112) charlie anzman (79) Chris (12) Chris. F. Masse (17) Chung (111) Compuwizard123 (16) DarkBls (47) David Arcos (26) Derek (3) dewitt (11) dobata (281) Edo (8) Eran Kampf (2) Erik (2) Eunix (0) everyone loves a wee sombrero (64) Fish (1) guanling (9) Hangya (14) Hasan (21) HelloKit (0) Holly (0) Horse (4) Hugo (3) HUNG (32) iAlja (23) Jeff (12) Jigar Mehta (27) John MacAdam (1) Jonathan Sterling (8) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) juzcoim (2) Kaveh Dorafshan (4) Keith (0) Kesor (8) livibetter (0) macbeach (1) MadGrin (1) Mark Whiting (12) Matt (15) Mike F (338) Mojtaba (17) Mr. Matt (8) nathos (2) Nick (0) Nikki (43) nkronberg (43) Nkululeko Masondo (0) ntutak (11) OcellNuri (9) Owen (1) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (15) Paul (16) Pengas (4) Peter H (24) PMinze (26) ps1160 (5) Pvw (9) R (33) R. Francis (6) Radovan (1) Rick Klau (71) ro11z (7) Robert Birming (32) Robert van Bregt (0) rOckY (113) Roel (16) Roy (15) rreynoso (0) simplynutty (0) Stephen J. Sundberg (5) swined (6) The Big Guy (2) Tony Ruscoe (13) totalpardo (0) Umesh (9) Valeehill (9) Voyagerfan5761 (15) web (4) xeal (6) xrx (23) ناصر جلالی (27)Explore read six notes- HelloKit said: Wondering how this affects spam filtering... are "suggested contacts" whitelisted, or do they have to be moved to "my contacts" first?
- Valeehill said: The perfect option!
- ntutak said: Thanks Google!
- nathos said: finally! Auto-added contacts can be a little annoying.
- billrod said: Great add on.. I like the fact that they keep all the contacts but it is nice that they will be broken out based on how many times I email them..
- $udhi™ said: something which was long due from GMail, now I can start working on my address book
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