David Lidsky's Blog, page 2705
June 10, 2016
Here Are Apple TV's Biggest Challenges At WWDC And Beyond
The Apple TV is already a capable media streamer, but it's a few steps shy of a revolution.
If Apple gets its way, the Apple TV could become the centerpiece of the living room.
This Startup Trains Africa's Elite Coding Apprentices For Giants Like IBM & Microsoft
For-profit education venture Andela pays its students to learn.
As a teenager growing up in Lomé, the capital of Togo, Faiçal Tchirou taught himself to code at a cybercafé. He wanted to help his mother manage the small pharmacy she owned. Prescription orders, inventory levels: Piece by piece, he learned how to create the operational software she needed. "She's still using it," he says with pride.
Measuring What Exactly Will Be Destroyed As New York's Sea Levels Rise
Sea level rise isn't just abstract. Schools, transportation, and people are all in the flood zones. They'll all be gone.
Sea levels along New York's coastline have risen about one foot since 1900. By the end of this century, they're predicted to rise another one to seven feet, according to a 2014 New York State report.
Chief Security Officer May Be The Job Of The Future That No One Wants
The gold rush for top security leadership is anything but stable.
Almost three years ago, one of the most historic hacks happened: Target disclosed that 40 million of its of its customers' credit and debit card data had been compromised. Bloomberg Businessweek called it "the biggest retail hack in U.S. history."
The Best Advice From 2016 Commencement Speeches
From Sheryl Sandberg to Spike Lee, here's a collection of some of the most inspiring advice from this year's commencement addresses.
College graduation is one of those pivotal milestones in life when you stand with your entire future before you. It's also one of those moments when anyone and everyone will bestow upon you stories of what they would have done differently, share what they wish they'd have known, and talk about what they've learned in the years since their own graduations.
Tom Brokaw On How To Talk To Anyone
With over 50 years in journalism and scores of interviews under his belt, Tom Brokaw knows how to start a conversation with anyone.
A large part of Tom Brokaw's career was spent in one of the country's most visible jobs, anchoring NBC's Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. Before Facebook's newsfeed and Twitter's moments, before the rise of viral videos on YouTube, Brokaw was one of three network television anchors that Americans depended on to report what was happening in the world. Over the course of a career that spans more than five decades, Brokaw talked to all kinds of people, from politicians and pundits to prisoners and civil rights workers. To say he's honed the craft of conversation would be an understatement.
Will Data Science Make Your Business Instincts Irrelevant?
Here's what you need to know to balance your intuition with the data—now that there's more of it than ever.
For now anyway, intuition is alive and well in the era of data analytics. Only about a third of executives in a 2014 PwC survey reported relying first and foremost on the data for their last big business decision. For the rest, the advice of their colleagues and good, old-fashioned gut instinct both played major roles.
From Redesigning The Workweek To Giving Up TV: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top leadership stories may help you have a more productive workweek, kick your TV habit, and even boost your income.
This week we learned how TV affects your brain, a one time-management pro's approach to team efficiency, and the right way to recharge over the weekend.
How To Handle Requests For Last-Minute Changes At Work
Uh oh, the game plan's just been rewritten. Here's what to do when it feels too late to back out or change course.
Eddie was a Chicago creative designer who'd built a strong reputation. So he was delighted when Andrew, a partner at a startup he'd worked with previously, tapped him for a new product launch. Eddie took notes over the phone and later that day sent Andrew a work plan and budget for approval. "All looks good," was Andrew's somewhat terse email reply.
How This Master Tea Taster--Whose Tongue Is Insured For £1 Million--Found His Calling
His taste buds are insured for more than both of Rihanna's legs and on par with one of Madonna's boobs, depending on the exchange rate.
It takes Tetley master blender Sebastian Michaelis more than four months of work to make a single bag of tea. The process involves leaping continents, driving all day on bumpy dirt roads, dealing with seaport strikes, battling buyers at auction houses, delivery trucks sliding off highways, speaking a made-up tea language called "Uhuru," and enduring weather phenomena that can be so extreme that insurance companies call them "acts of God."
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