Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase, Economics, Nobel Prize Laureate, via @BigDataGal
“the stuff that can be done by technical people today will be provided by some application for everyone tomorrow” – @downes
“When experts are wrong, it’s often because they’re experts on an earlier version of the world” – @axelletess
“being a student is not a disease, and education is not a cure” – @gbiesta
“Spend less time criticising others’ work and spend more time creating work that others criticise.” – @DecaSteve
“Wages have stagnated to such an extent that it’s impossible for labor to insure itself.” – @YanisVaroufakis, via @RWartzman
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.” – H.L. Mencken, via @normsmusic
Three Ways to Stay Smarter than the Machines, via @anderspink
“What’s the relationship between seeking and sharing content on social networks, like Twitter, and then bringing that to share in the workplace? There seems like there’s a gap there.”
and finally …
