things i like. mostly ridiculous.
We’re getting into the homestretch before the 219th General Assembly convenes on July 3 in Minneapolis. Which leads to today’s topic for discussion: will that be a bad thing or a good thing? Discuss. Everybody agrees that a good thing about GA is that it’s like a family reunion. It’s a time when people from across the denomination gather together, in all our diversity, quirkiness, and uniqueness, but also in our common love for Jesus Christ and in our grounding in the Reformed tradition. We worship together...
Clandestine Photos From Inside Foxconn's Factory The stories by Liu Zhi Yi—the undercover reporter inside Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen—were depressing. These photos make them even sadder. Gloomy atmosphere, people fighting, and long lines of unemployed trying to get into the 400,000-people factory...
Putting in long shifts may put extra strain on the heart, experts believe People who regularly put in overtime and work 10 or 11-hour days increase their heart disease risk by nearly two-thirds, research suggests. The findings come from a study of 6,000 British civil servants, published online in the European Heart Journal. After accounting for known heart risk factors such as smoking, doctors found those who worked three to four hours of overtime a day ran a 60% higher risk. Experts said the findings...
via fox23.com Wow. My sister Allison almost made me shoot coffee out of my nose watching this.
I'm working on a bit for my book and I want to do a brief survey of different management books and their "best practices." One I think I want to look at is Collins' "Good to Great" and his idea of getting the "right people on the bus and the wrong people off."Ideas?
As I was growing up, my folks whispered a subversive, un-American, anti-capitalist idea in my ear. Not only did they teach it to me, they lived it out. That dangerous idea: don't live beyond your means. via belovedspear.org I often find David's reflections to be some of the more thoughtful pronouncements in my sphere of reference. Today's post on debt is no exception.
I'm not someone you'd probably like. Unless you like people like that...then you'd love me.
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