I’ve come across a lot of visualisations for interesting data in the past few days. Am putting together a list of those here. Hope you like it and learn something from it.
Personally, I’ve been obsessed with the art of showing data in the best way.
Learn MoreFrom who else, but Brain Pickings!
Check out this entire series where they curate half a dozen articles on the definition of work and life. My favourites are Paul Graham and Alain de Botton.
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Over the past month of relocating, I’ve had to put up a lot of my stuff on ebay (alright, it was kijiji.ca). This is a very stressful thing for just about anybody and part of the stress come from the strange weirdos you will meet in the process. Two examples of this are worth mentioning based on the kijiji.ca listing for my car that I expected to sell for $10,000.
Learn MoreBack when London was burning under the riots a lot of folks were locked up inside their houses. If it was me, I would have probably caught up on my reading or maybe just watched tv and internet coverage of the riots because moving out wasn’t safe at all.
And then in a few days we all saw that the public came together to clean up the mess. The hashtag #riotcleanup sprang to action and helped people mobilize their efforts to bring order back to the city.
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(Bejan talking about my mind being all unbalanced)
In August 2004 I was very busy running a startup. Time flew by me because of the awesome fun I was having then. While the company was involved in astrology as a business, I myself didn’t believe much in it (or rather I should say, I didn’t depend on it). When most people would love to be around Bejan especially when Bejan was talking about you, I was deliberately not listening to him and kept myself occupied with my SLR shooting this and a lot more pictures of my friends.
Learn MoreWhen some things feel difficult, maybe it is because they are worth it.
Source: http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=070811
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