#Lessons

In 2004 I got the opportunity to work with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle. It was Amazon’s first foray into hardware and I learned a ton from my
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This is one of the reasons why I have been arguing against the whole Basel approach to bank regulation. It cannot deal with uncertainty and random shocks. Now, a pro-cyclical
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Mike Mayock announces he will be donating $1,000 for every pick the Raiders make, in the name of that player. Raiders currently have 7 picks and Mayock stated that he
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Life Lessons I learned from Han Solo and Chewie.#1: Let The Wookie Win #MakeSolo2Happen Life Lesson #2: Even with the best crew in the galaxy, don’t get cocky. #MakeSolo2Happen Life
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Time for some lessons with Bill Ripken! First up, throwing... @RipkenBaseball Concentrate on your footwork. @RipkenBaseball Time to work on fielding. @RipkenBaseball Proper fielding position. @RipkenBaseball Some tips for making
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Watching as the Labour party, once again, descends into uncivil war. It cannot coalesce around any policy position or agree on who is best placed to deliver it. 1/6 We've
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Pleased to share my testimony to @SenateCommerce on the use of #BigData for #COVID19. Read: https://bit.ly/2y4zPml . I focus on explaining the commercial ecosystem for #locationdata. Policymakers must understand what's out
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1. Logged on to find lots of people saying there are lessons to be learned from Hartlepool. But, quite honestly, I don't think there are. Flag-waving Tory-aping doesn't work. But
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On #Lenin's 150th birthday, in addition to typical #readlenin overtures, I want to share something less often said abt the revolutionary leader: the person I found beneath the towering edifice
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I know folks want an exact answer on how-one that they can understand. That isn't the first step. The first step is realizing we have to get away from policing,
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When you ask God for more, when you decide that you want an extraordinary life...brace yourself. Because, before the filling comes an emptying. Before the anointing comes a stripping away.
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.@AmyCEdmondson and I just wrote about good leadership during #Covid_19, drawing on @NBA and @JacindaAdern as examples.https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz/status/1249689835989762049 Key idea is that common management "good sense" can lead you as
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A plea to any & all journalists writing on Tibet/Xinjiang and security/repression/surveillance in these areas: Please *think* before you use "pioneered" & "replicated." Almost all uses of these terms I
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Since this video has been blowing up, I thought it might be useful to annotate some of the analysis. Here are the receipts.https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1245720391168995329 On the policy lessons we took from
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tips on how to get good grades while keeping up with bts, a thread that may (hopefully) help student armys: DISCLAIMER: i am not a teacher nor am i a
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1. If you're talking/doing business, get everything (as much as you can) in writing. Even if it's a simple email to confirm or clarify the agreement.I get a lot of
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