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POPSThe "Generation M" Manifesto More: There's a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M." What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? The first is for a movement. It's a little bit about age — but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth "M"s… I was (kind of) kidding about seceding before. Here's what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours. It's Gen M's job to foot the bill for your profligacy — and create, instead, an authentically, sustainably shared prosperity.
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POPSNo Smiting But God still has some growing up to do. Wright argues that much of the problem isn’t with the religious texts or teachings themselves, but with the social conditions — the “facts on the ground” — that shape the sort of God we choose to create. Change the world, and you change the God. “If history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral truth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe — conceivably — the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”
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POPSEntrepreneur Coaching Bill Baren�s entrepreneur coaching focuses in helping you manage your enterprise to greater success with more ease and less stress.
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POPS'Get off Facebook and get a life'
He said: "Social networking is the internet's biggest growth area, particular among young children. "A quarter of British children have a laptop or computer in their room by the age of five and they have their own social networking sites, like the BBC's myCBBC. It's causing huge changes." Dr Sigman said 209 "socially regulated" genes have been identified, including ones involved in the immune system, cell proliferation and responses to stress. Electronic media is also undermining the ability of children and young people to learn vital social skills and read body language, he said. Dr Sigman continued: "One of the most pronounced changes in the daily habits of British citizens is a reduction in the number of minutes per day that they interact with another human being. "In less than two decades, the number of people saying there is no one with whom they discuss important matters nearly tripled. "Parents spend less time with their children than they did only a decade ago
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POPSA Sampling Of These Fast Growing Tech Companies
# Growth Matters: Dailymotion moves you with video # Growth Matters: Dash Navigation helps you get there faster # Growth Matters: Doodle gets your schedule right # Growth Matters: Evernote makes you smarter # Growth Matters: Evite's an invitation to print money # Growth Matters: Ford SYNCs your car with the world # Growth Matters: Gameloft is French for mobile fun # Growth Matters: GeckoGo takes you places you've never been # Growth Matters: Jagex is Europe's PC fun maker # Growth Matters: Kayak.com travels with $200 million in capital # Growth Matters: King.com dominates games of skill online # Growth Matters: Last.fm learns your music and gives you more # Growth Matters: Mister Wong is Europe's social bookmarker # Growth Matters: MocoSpace makes mobile fun and games # Growth Matters: Netlog is Europe's social networking leader # Growth Matters: Netvibes makes Europe more social # Growth Matters: Otto Group is world's second biggest e-commerce company more @ site:
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POPSCasino of History Whatever this Monday's headlines and soundbites are thrown to the pack for rabid hysteria, always worth stepping back for a cooler look and remembering that the longer view, aka history, matters more than ever.
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POPSWhy overhead matters $15 billion valuation my ass. Facebook just threw money at the scaling problem - and now they are in deep trouble.
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POPSIf Entire Countries Go Broke, We'll Go With Them The root of today's credit crisis is not that the world lacks money; the world is awash in cash, with $6 trillion sitting idly in global money markets alone. But if countries start to fail, the remainder of the world's investment capital could be spooked out of productive investments as well. Nor do we have the tools to avert disaster. The International Monetary Fund's resources are a pittance compared to the financial exposure of the countries in most danger. And as a result of the industrialized world's government bailouts and bank guarantees, there won't be any more capital for emerging markets that are still flailing. Take, for example, a country as large and powerful as Germany: Deutsche Bank's assets represent 80 percent of the nation's GDP. In Switzerland, the assets of the bank UBS represent 450 percent of the country's GDP. The financial exposure of the British banks is similarly alarming: Barclays PLC's assets amount to more than 100 percent of the United Kingdom's GDP,
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POPSBarney Frank and Chuck Schumer’s Role In Fannie Mae's Failure In Congress, they made sure there was no additional oversight, no additional limit on executive behavior and compensation, and no further restraint on the growth of the companies’ mortgage-backed-securities portfolios, among other changes. (All of these needed reforms, by the way, have been championed for years by Sen. John Sununu.) They wanted more loans to people who might not qualify for traditional bank financing. And, as The Wall Street Journal has pointed out, Frank “pressured regulators to ease up on their capital requirements — which now means taxpayers will have to make up that capital shortfall.” Barney Frank is the very symbol of Washington’s deliberate refusal to prevent the collapse — the predicted collapse — of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Rules were relaxed and money was loaned and predictably low income families defaulted on loans that they never had any business getting in the first place and now you and I have to pay for it.
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POPS10 Traits for Lifelong Fulfillment 9. Full engagement Though you may play several different roles during the day, you only do one thing at a time. You are present to your current experience. 10. Long term perspective You are committed to a grand vision and purpose for your life. You are not swayed by short term urgencies. While many others are thinking only days and weeks ahead, you are looking years and decades forward.
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POPS Open Letter To Secretary-General of the United Nations Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables. We therefore need to equip nations to become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation. The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by government representatives. The great majority of IPCC contributors and reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.
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POPSWorld Criticizes America's Global Role Bush discussed Britain’s involvement in the two conflicts, saying, "Prime minister (Tony) Blair knows what I know, that we’re in a global war, and that we think about Afghanistan and Iraq as separate wars; they’re of the same war, they’re just different theatres of this war. The world is his playground...
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POPSWhat Are You Optimistic About? - The Edge Annual Question 2007 The Edge asks a very interesting question to a whole bunch of leading thinkers, scientists, philosophers, etc. each year. This is this years question. Last years question was: "What is your Dangerous Idea"? Question of 2005 was " What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it ? I only clipped a tiny selection of the candidates & links to their answers of this years question. It's a great resource. Really worth checking out. Just click one of the links I clipped & feed yourselves with some optimism. ( ;-) to invictus)
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