You know my stand on this. I think Steve Jobs has to be one of the best pre­sen­ters in the world. His speeches are great not because he is a great speaker (which he is), but because he makes great use of the tech­nol­ogy that he has avail­able to his advan­tage. He is prob­a­bly the world’s best sales­man today.

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For some strange rea­son, peo­ple seem to be look­ing for jobs nowa­days. Maybe the eco­nomic inse­cu­rity is forc­ing peo­ple to look for greener pas­tures, or maybe the younger gen­er­a­tion has a cer­tain thresh­old for hold­ing on to jobs, but I’ve heard of sev­eral peo­ple look­ing for work, sub­mit­ting their resume for con­sid­er­a­tion or get­ting job inter­views in other com­pa­nies, and even send­ing their resumes to me for con­sid­er­a­tion in our company.

One of the most dif­fi­cult things you can ever do is tell some­one some­thing bad about him/her or giv­ing neg­a­tive feed­back. It’s not an easy job. And it can make or break rela­tion­ships. But if done prop­erly, it has the poten­tial to make you a bet­ter per­son and a bet­ter friend.

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Ever heard of Stanislav Petrov?

Prob­a­bly not—but you may very well owe him your life.

Petrov, a for­mer mem­ber of the Soviet mil­i­tary, didn’t actu­ally do any­thing but that’s pre­cisely the point.

Hyper­par­ent­ing is also known as “heli­copter par­ent­ing” in some cir­cles. It is the term for par­ents who pays extremely close atten­tion to his or her child’s or children’s expe­ri­ences and prob­lems, par­tic­u­larly at edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions. They are so named because, like heli­copters, they hover closely over­head, rarely out of reach, whether their chil­dren need them or not. In Scan­di­navia, this phe­nom­e­non is known as curl­ing par­ent­hood and describes par­ents who attempt to sweep all obsta­cles out of the paths of their chil­dren. It is also called “over­par­ent­ing”. Par­ents try to resolve their child’s prob­lems, and try to stop them com­ing to harm by keep­ing them out of dan­ger­ous situations.