She is getting roasted over this, pun intended 😀
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more Starbucks in an area --> 3-4% more inventions.
People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help see an issue from another perspective. These conversations lead to breakthroughs and inventions.
A very fun paper finds that when Starbucks rolled out to a new county, it fueled a coffee-shop culture, urging more and more people to “grab a coffee” together. The authors compare the counties where Starbucks had rolled out to those where it had not yet arrived. And they find that the number of patents in caffeinated counties is meaningfully higher.
This paper underscores how essential the face-to-face encounter is. Starbucks isn’t that old. People Could have picked up the phone and chatted at any time. People Could have dropped an email. Probably they did. But those connections didn’t yield the same insights and creativity.
Turns out that a Cup of Joe really does help the knowledge flow. We talk about how much in-person connection boosts creativity in In Person. It’s out in just few days, so now is a great time to pre-order.
To see the full research use the link in the comments.
#Innovation #InPerson #FutureOfWork #CoffeeCulture #NewBook
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Chart crime. Wtf is the y axis and why so different across plots?! For context, in Macedonia it has been hot enough for AC since I remember in the 80s sweating as a kid.
Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:
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Bulgaria never had any soft power in Macedonia. It was always rightfully seen as a threat and an enemy especially after the occupation in WWII, the Holocaust complicity and the continuing denial to this day of Macedonian ethnicity and language. This guy is an idiot.
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Hence my saying: CRM is there to tell you what to do next, not what you did already.
Design & focus of CRM usage for sales teams should be on next steps and plans, not on logging past activities. Deeper content doesn't belong in CRM - I can always call the AE to get the meat.
No better sales activity than updating the CRM. How else would my manager, manager’s manager, manager’s manager’s manager, and manager’s manager’s manager’s manager’s act like they know exactly what is going on in our deal?
All from the very insightful sentence I decide to type 3 days after the call at 5:12 PM CST.
“great call with jt, loved it. big goal to grow revenue. demo next week”
If only there was a way to figure out what is 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 said in deal conversations.
No (biased) data entry required.
I love #CRM!
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We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1jxXgeyMk…
This graph looks like it was made by a 2 year old: numbers and percentages are over with no axis or logic. And don't get me started on 2033...
Seeing lots of very reasonable concerns about American missile and interceptor stockpiles. It's a pressing issue that should have been addressed long ago, but there has been a concerted effort to expand production in recent months.
Here's a rough breakdown of production surges:
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The RE fiasco has conditioned MSM to be aware of its importance, but this completely underplays just how serious this set of export controls are.
Diamond, Ga, In, Ge, Tungsten, Mb & Sb are possibly even more far-reaching. There is really no viable replacement to China.
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Much of what you’ve been told online about fitness and training is wrong.
High intensity isn’t everything.
Zone 2 isn’t magic.
VO₂max isn’t destiny.
Let’s bust some fitness myths…
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Секој Србин, Бугарин или Албанец кој надвор од институции употребува Северна е недоброномерен.
Секој Македонец кој го прави истото е со потреба од стручно лице за консултации и разговор.
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Tourism means becoming a nation of unskilled landlords and servants. It is not a path to prosperity, but a cope for its absence.
It will worsen, not fix, the problems of Southern Europe and, as they get poorer, other developed countries too. My new article in @palladiummag:
Factories and offices will always generate far more wealth than hotels and restaurants. Growing tourism is a sign of economic stagnation not dynamism.
Europe needs to learn: no country ever got rich off tourism—nor will stay rich.
Read the new article by @mmjukic (link below):
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Factories and offices will always generate far more wealth than hotels and restaurants. Growing tourism is a sign of economic stagnation not dynamism.
Europe needs to learn: no country ever got rich off tourism—nor will stay rich.
Read the new article by @mmjukic (link below):
And they are the worst most overpriced crap you can eat. I will stick to my guns: for all the great ingredients, Europeans don’t know how to make sandwiches. This crap below is a ton of bread, 2-3 slices of some meat, and maybe a veggie or two, drowning in useless letuce.
you can get one of these every 50 feet in europe. theyre like 4 bucks. they are superior in everyway to starbucks waveslop. why can America not compete on this cafe sandwich front. what advanced manufacturing do we require
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EU relations w/ Serba are v limited. The EU sources on aid --not on loans that have to be repaid-- are perhaps intentionally vague. But the amounts are small. Even $1b (highest amount cited) is about 1% of GDP. Not nothing, but not much. Moreover, lots of that money goes to pay EU consultants' overpriced 'technical expertise'.
Other sources claim the amounts were even much less.
"In the period from 1990 until 2027, Bulgaria received or will receive 43 billion from EU structural funds. Serbia a bit less than 4 billion."
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I was Salomon Brothers (Citigroup) Class of 2001.
If you're starting business or law school now, the traditional job opportunities available to you now will drop by 80% by the time you graduate.
