Dec 31 Less is more: being a spectator

Preparing New Year's Resolutions - an annual activity since the early 80s (& I still have most of the cards)
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Dec 31 Less is more: being a spectator

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

- Alan J. Perlis

Special Feature: Epigrams on programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 1982;17(9):7-13. Alan Perlis

Dec 30 Rx, Intellectual Property and Indian Patent Recognition

Protecting intellectual property but improving financial access continue to evolve in India.

India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers
By GARDINER HARRIS Published: December 29, 2013

"An Indian government committee is soon expected to announce the start of a formal process to set aside patents on 15 more medicines, according to a committee member who agreed to speak about secret deliberations only if granted anonymity. Malini Aisola of the Public Health Foundation of India said the expanded list “will create ripples around the world.” "

India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers

If You Want to be Happy ...

FT.com email article

Dec 11 Less is more: mimic

"In anying we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it."

- Howard Schultz

(Dec 8, 2013 http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/super-soul-sunday.html )

Dec 10 Less is more: inconceivable

“When Mr. Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he told his followers in the African National Congress that he believed in the nationalization of South Africa’s main businesses. “The nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the A.N.C., and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable,” he said at the time.

Two years later, however, Mr. Mandela changed his mind, embracing capitalism, and charted a new economic course for his country.”

- Sorkin AR. How Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets. New York Times December 9, 2013. p B1.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/how-mandela-shifted-views-on-freedom-of-markets/?ref=business

Dec 6 Less is more: work

"I have this new initiative in my life, and I’m trying to push my colleagues to do it, too, where I want to work less and think more.
In a given month, I do a lot of very mediocre stuff, but once in a while I come up with a really good idea. Maybe I’ll come up with two in a month. Those two inevitably happen when I’m either falling into a nap, or coming out of a nap, or waking up slowly on a Saturday morning.
I’m trying to engineer more of those in my life. I’m trying to encourage more people to have naps because, hopefully, more people will have these brilliant ideas."
- Brian Halligan
Quoted in Adam Bryant. CORNER OFFICE: Brian Halligan, Chief of HubSpot, on the Value of Naps. New York Times Dec 6, 2013 http://nyti.ms/186jqKE

If You Want to be Happy ...

FT.com email article

High Deductible Health Plans

Growing, but right for whom?

Patient Money - High-Deductible Health Plans Have Some Downsides - NYTimes.com

Plagiarism Part II - Stanley Bing

The Ontology of Plagiarism: Part Two - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Geraci - - An extended discussion on child nutrition in BCPS

Re: Tim Ferriss Scam! Practical Tactics for Dealing with Haters

"I elaborated on a few points in an interview in the Netherlands with Amy-Mae Elliot, who originally posted them on Mashable in her piece Tim Ferriss: 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters..."

Tim Ferriss keynote The Next Web Conference 2010 - Love the Haters from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.

The Pharmacist is in

In Health Shift, More Patients Get Pharmacist’s Appointment - NYTimes.com

Senate Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Video of Government Undercover Investigation

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 29, 2010

Senate Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Video of Government Undercover Investigation
By Kelly Field

Washington

Government investigators will testify at a Senate hearing on Wednesday about an undercover inquiry into recruiting practices at for-profit colleges.

The hearing will feature video of college recruiters and admissions officers talking to the investigators, who were posing as students, Democratic aides told The Chronicle.

The aides would not say what the investigation, conducted by the Government Accountability Office, had found, only that it included a "nationally ...





Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Video of Government Undercover Investigation - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education

NYT Editorial: Who Profits? Who Learns?

28JULY2010

Enrollment at for-profit colleges and trade schools has tripled in the last decade to about 1.8 million, or nearly 10 percent of the nation’s higher education students. These schools, partly because they serve poorer students who need more support, receive almost a quarter of the federal aid. This year, federal financing for financial aid is expected to total $145 billion.

Some for-profits provide an important service for students who don’t qualify academically for traditional colleges. Too many have been cited for enrolling students who have no chance of graduating and tossing them out once that flow of aid is exhausted.

The Obama administration is right to ...




Editorial - Who Profits? Who Learns? - NYTimes.com

Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers

July 26, 2010, 12:10 PM ET

Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers
As a sign of the growth of for-profit higher-education providers in Britain, on Monday the first private institution in the country was awarded the title of "university college," with the announcement that
...

Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers - The Global Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

For Profit Colleges: Does the Title Say It All?

July 25, 2010

Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges?

Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle
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Michael Clifford believes that education is the only path to world peace. He never went to college, but sometimes he calls himself "Doctor." Jerry Falwell is one of his heroes. Clifford has made millions of dollars from government programs but doesn't seem to see the windfall that way. Improbably, he has come to symbolize the contradictions at the heart of the growing national debate over for-profit higher education.

Until recently,...


Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges? - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Food ads directed to children

From July 24, 2010 New York Times:

Ad Rules Stall, Keeping Cereal a Cartoon Staple
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Published: July 23, 2010



U.S. Stalls in Its Push to Limit Food Ads Aimed at Children - NYTimes.com

Built by engineers for engineers: Microsoft

Microsoft's monopolistic practices does it no good when it must actually compete. Its organizational flabbiness and tone deaf approach to customers is in full force with consumer electronics:

A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft - NYTimes.com

Access to medicine index 2010

"The Index 2010 report covers 27 companies, comprising 20 originators and seven generics manufacturers. The ranking isand based on 106 indicators that measure activities across four strategic and seven technical areas. The research and analysis for the Index 2010 was conducted by RiskMetrics Group..."

The Index 2010 | Access to Medicine Index

CME and Corporate Relationships

Misgivings Grow Over Corporate Role in Keeping Doctors Current - NYTimes.com