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"Business Stripped Bare" by Sir Richard Branson.



Sir Richard shares the inside on his life in business. E.g, how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars (faster than Microsoft, Google and Amazon) and how Richard is the only person in the world to have built eight, yes eight, billion-dollar companies from scratch in eight different sectors. Published 2009.



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Given the laws of Physics and the nature of Brownian Motion ... I am forced to conclude that, however remote, there remains the possibility that, at some point or other in the Past, Present or Future, I may have ... or have had ... forming part of my own physical mass, an electron or two that were once part of Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, "Gee, Dubbyah" or, worse yet, that scrounger, parasite, pervert ... that worm ... that loathsome spotted reptile ... that piece of slimy refuse ... George…

It has been said that, if you love someone, you should set them free and that, if they return, you can be (re)assured that their heart belongs to you

On the other hand, it might just be that no-one else wanted them

"You don't mind if the government physically probes inside you each and every day to see if you are smuggling drugs, do you? If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide."

Many moons ago, I was, as I am wont to do, idly musing about stuff because I had no choice but to do so

I still have no choice

It's what my brain/mind does when I'm not paying attention and it springs this stuff on me all the time ... and by all the time, I mean every waking second

It took me forever to get my head around all the fuss about multitasking

I mean ... you mean there are people who don't think about ten ideas at once? What do you mean you…

"What would you say were your greatest weakness?"

"Honesty."

"I don't think honesty is a weakness."

"I don't give a fuck what you think."

magine the day Terry Pratchett dies ... will the World be in mourning?

A sizable proportion of it will consider itself affected, no doubt, and will feel that a light has gone out in the World

Some of those people go to conventions and book signings etc., etc., behaving, for all the World, as fanatically as any teenager screaming and swooning over their music idols

People can get extremely emotional about writing and its authors

Indeed, people have been oppressed,…

Do you need a break from Work?

Do you like holidays?

Would you like more of them?

Don't tell the government you're an atheist then

Or they'll take Christmas away from you because it's a religious observance that atheists don't need

You have been warned

I don't think there's any chance of my ever being accused of being a conformist, let alone a shill for any government or agency

I am, by nature and training, a devil's advocate - I just can't help but argue against something I fervently believe in myself on the basis that whether I agree or not is immaterial when the argument presented has more holes in it than does Swiss cheese

And that's the problem with the Freeman on the Land argument: it's wishful…

I recently thought back over the occasions in my life when I've had a flash of inspiration ... a bolt from the blue ... and discovered something rather worrying: my predictions are becoming rather more specific .. and, I suspect, rather more accurate as a result

I haven't listened to myself properly over the years either, so ... now that I am doing ... some of the implications are rather worrying

For a long time now, I've been saying that water is going to be…

3D printers

You can already print anything you like with them - Food, flesh, metal, ceramics ... even plastic and paper items, if you really want to

The problem will be that ... along with the cost of filling them with the right materials [1] ... they'll be designed to delete the blueprint after one use

So it won't any cheaper than purchasing a finished item is now - You'll pay per use of someone's intellectual copyright on their blueprint instead of buying prefabricated…

"They say he came from a Planet"

The old woman said

Looking amazed and scratching her head

Her friend, "You mean rumour has it?"

"I mean I am certain, since from my own curtain

I've seen him alone with no friends,

I've seen him make tricks like a circle with ends."

"You mean since last night you were certain?"

Right then the two ladies were stopped in their tracks,

The man they had mentioned appeared,

He smiled at them, not what they…

I am sick to death of my left nostril being single-handedly responsible for the Tissue-and-Toilet-Paper-Manufacturers' quarterly bonuses : (

Does anyone make an ANTI-Sinex product? [1]

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[1] One you BLOCK your nose with, so you can get on with Life in more than two-second intervals

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of some cretin invoking Godwin's Law in lieu of an argument approaches 1."

If you make a black hat comment on someone else's poem, it should be complemented by three yellow hat comments for every black hat comment. This is a small part of advanced thinking on the Edward de Bono site.>

The Two Bears

She thought she had…

Being, by nature, somewhat enthusiastically and happily impulsive with my enthusiasms, I love Black Hat.

After getting whatever random idea I'd like to take into action, I immediately plunk on my Black Hat for a few seconds and ask the same old tried and true question, "What do you expect to get out of that?" [Feel free to add the sarcastic tone that often accompanies that when asked by someone else. Personally, I ask without sarcasm but ...]. I then set about…

Hello,

New to this site, so I beg your pardon if this is intrusive or against policy, but I thought you might be interested to know that an implementation of the L Game is available for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch.

The L Game

I started playing the game as a high school student in the 70's (after reading the '5-Day Course in Thinking'), and have long wanted to write a…