The future is amazing

Amazing video from Microsoft on how the future is amazing, and how technology can make it absolutely awesome. Really worth your time. Funny enough, if I had to think to a company that can make it happen, it’s probably more Apple than Microsoft. We shall see.

Criminal Penguin

You just MUST watch this, it is so hilarious – thank you BBC, always great things! Ciminal Penguin

20110926 Readings

What I am reading this week: Catastrophic Success: The usual good John Mauldin on social security and Ponzi’s schemes Facebook new timeline: Lots of data on us from us to them on what we do whenever wherever. Whatever! Hulu’s Facebook app: Hulu goes social with this cool app Can Facebook become the web?: Interestng Jessy Hempel from Fortune on Facebook – I hope it...

New blog UI

I am trying a new blog UI. Hope it works, let me know if you like it. I might change it again! Thanks

Tournament-style incentives

Tournament style incentives are like tournaments: the bests get most of the bonus, much less (if anything) is left to the others. The ones that outperform the peers are given more than the others. Now, you can outperform in two ways: 1) working better 2) make sure your peers do a bad job. Another interesting note is about luck: the more luck impacts the outcome, the higher the incentive has to be. Easy example:...