Steve Jobs Taught This Man How To Win Arguments With Really Stubborn People Have you got any stubborn people in your life? Well, here's a brilliant life lesson shared by Pixar cofounder and Walt Disney President Ed Catmull. He spent 26 years working with the notoriously stubborn Steve Jobs, one of Pixar's other cofounders. Jobs once told him that his method of working things out when people disagreed with him was to "just explain ...
Google search: 15 hidden features 1. Calculator Google's calculator function is far more powerful than most people realise. As well as doing basic maths (5+6 or 3*2) it can do logarithmic calculations, and it knows constants (like e and pi), as well as functions like Cos and Sin. Google can also translate numbers into binary code – try typing '12*3 in binary'. ...
Talking Points: Must You Know What Will Happen Next?Is There a Better Way?Strategies When You Know That You Don’t Know “Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.” -Michael Steinhardt "95% of the trading errors you are likely to make will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table ...
CIA joins Twitter Social media has become such an important element in our day-to-day lives that it’s no surprise companies and government agencies are trying to gain our attention via these mediums. The CIA decided to join in the fun, too. After creating a Facebook page earlier this week, the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States also created a Twitter account to increase its social media presence. ...
77-year-old trader: How I made a lot of money Paul Glandorf rattles off stock ticker symbols the way most people talk about popular TV shows and music. At age 77, he is anything but a stereotypical Wall Street trader. He lives in Ohio and prefers casual "retiree clothing." (He put on a tie for this photo.) But his returns would make many top investors salivate. He participated in an investing competition in ...