IMDb: Top 25 Korean Movies - a list by Ablis89

IMDb: Top 25 Korean Movies - a list by Ablis89:

I have seen quite a few of them, but if you have to pick one, I would pick either..

1.

Oldboy (2003)

Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

8.4/10

or

10. My Sassy Girl (2001)

8.3/10

don't feel bad if you have not seen it yet.. as I recommended them even to Koreans I know. ;-)

"NO ONE" knows and have seen everything!

Happy enjoying and learning other people's culture and social context..

Erm.. WHAT is the business?? LAUNCH - Blog - How to name your startup (and land the perfect�domain)

LAUNCH - Blog - How to name your startup (and land the perfect�domain)

I think the above is a great, and rather long post instructive post on how best to choose name and paying over the odds for the 'online real-estate'..

One cannot but in noticing one thing, as per my lunch conversation with a major bankers in Pall Mall, London, the key part of the equation is somehow totally missed or ignored to this day, which is: WHAT IS THE BUSINESS?? WHAT are they selling??

but of course maybe it is so obvious that it was not even necessary to be mentioned by even one line in this otherwise fantastic post.

maybe I am just tired and didn't "see it"..

@GarethWong

peHUB � Moritz on Great Entrepreneurs, Cleantech, 25 Years at Sequoia, Valuations, More

peHUB � Moritz on Great Entrepreneurs, Cleantech, 25 Years at Sequoia, Valuations, More:

How a great article should be, insightful & to the point, you should click above to finish reading! ;-)

I Like this Michael guy already, but being based in London and with no Silicon Valley around, a naturally reserved guy like me had to learn to express himself to hopefully meet our equivalent Michael Moritz someday..

"Remarkable founders don’t come across as “silvery tongued devils,” says Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital. Rather, they’re often shy, quiet and rather withdrawn.

That was one of the observations Moritz made last night in a one-hour Q&A at startup incubator Kicklabs. The Xconomy-hosted event was provocatively titled “Michael Moritz Unplugged,” but the star VC didn’t say anything terribly surprising.

Here are some highlights:

On what Sequoia looks for in entrepreneurs: “We have a great affinity for underdogs,” he says.� What great entrepreneurs have in common is an inability to think about anything but their business and mastery in their area of focus."

Real reason why some politicians are still 'trusted'! , Defend Your Research: People Often Trust Eloquence More Than Honesty - Harvard Business Review

Defend Your Research: People Often Trust Eloquence More Than Honesty - Harvard Business Review:

Real reason why some politicians are still 'trusted'!

"Rogers: In our study, subjects found the candidate answering a similar but different question just as trustworthy and likable as when he answered the original question. What’s more, after hearing an artful dodge, subjects had much lower recall of the question asked; in some of our studies, less than half could remember it accurately. If anything, that result is artificially high, since when we asked them to recall the question, we gave them four options, so they had a 25% chance of guessing correctly. But the important finding is that the audience didn’t penalize a speaker who dodged a question well.

Norton: But you had to be good at it, and you couldn’t be obvious. When the candidate answered a completely different question, he was penalized heavily and rated less likable and trustworthy. Interestingly, people were much better at recalling the actual question in those cases.

After we did this research, we really paid attention to the national elections. We noticed how some politicians seemed to have mastered this skill. Hillary Clinton was phenomenal at dodging questions. Looking back, Ronald Reagan was a master dodger, too."

Real reason why some politicians are still 'trusted'! , Defend Your Research: People Often Trust Eloquence More Than Honesty - Harvard Business Review

Defend Your Research: People Often Trust Eloquence More Than Honesty - Harvard Business Review:

Real reason why some politicians are still 'trusted'!

"Rogers: In our study, subjects found the candidate answering a similar but different question just as trustworthy and likable as when he answered the original question. What’s more, after hearing an artful dodge, subjects had much lower recall of the question asked; in some of our studies, less than half could remember it accurately. If anything, that result is artificially high, since when we asked them to recall the question, we gave them four options, so they had a 25% chance of guessing correctly. But the important finding is that the audience didn’t penalize a speaker who dodged a question well.

Norton: But you had to be good at it, and you couldn’t be obvious. When the candidate answered a completely different question, he was penalized heavily and rated less likable and trustworthy. Interestingly, people were much better at recalling the actual question in those cases.

After we did this research, we really paid attention to the national elections. We noticed how some politicians seemed to have mastered this skill. Hillary Clinton was phenomenal at dodging questions. Looking back, Ronald Reagan was a master dodger, too."

brilliant read.. should take more time to re-read for sure. ;-) Redefining Greatness (It's Complicated) - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review

Redefining Greatness (It's Complicated) - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review:

brilliant read.. should take more time to re-read for sure. ;-)

"Greatness demands both decisiveness and flexibility, courage and prudence, strength and vulnerability, action and introspection.

The true measure of greatness is our capacity to navigate between our opposites with agility and grace — to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never to stop trying to get better."

The best country to start a business... - WSJ.com

The best country to start a business... - WSJ.com

fascinating, Denmark the most startup friendly? (along with most nordic countries) and Peru got most number of % of female entrepreneurs!?

need to take a closer look later!

Must read! The Return of China - WSJ.com by Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University

The Return of China - WSJ.com:

Must read!

"As I've researched my forthcoming book over the past two years, I've concluded that the West developed six 'killer applications' that 'the Rest' lacked. These were:

• Competition: Europe was politically fragmented, and within each monarchy or republic there were multiple competing corporate entities.

• The Scientific Revolution: All the major 17th-century breakthroughs in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology happened in Western Europe.

• The rule of law and representative government: This optimal system of social and political order emerged in the English-speaking world, based on property rights and the representation of property owners in elected legislatures.

• Modern medicine: All the major 19th- and 20th-century advances in health care, including the control of tropical diseases, were made by Western Europeans and North Americans.

• The consumer society: The Industrial Revolution took place where there was both a supply of productivity-enhancing technologies and a demand for more, better and cheaper goods, beginning with cotton garments.

• The work ethic: Westerners were the first people in the world to combine more extensive and intensive labor with higher savings rates, permitting sustained capital accumulation."

Chinese pupils trash dinner hall in protest at cost of meals | World news | The Guardian

Chinese pupils trash dinner hall in protest at cost of meals | World news | The Guardian

This is difficult for westerner to understand.

but you must.

China’s Fastest Growing Provinces: The Demographics | China Briefing News

China’s Fastest Growing Provinces: The Demographics | China Briefing News

Nice coverage of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Hunan, Jilin, or Hubei

Brilliant indeed.