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  • Fortune on hunting the perfect sugar, “When the history of sugar is written, 2016 may go down as the year its image turned.” Indeed, I can testify to that.

  • Lessons learned from a tough day at work Working with people remains the toughest job. Not because people are fundamentally bad but because all of us have a unique story going inside us each and every day. And accommodating someone in that narrative is tough. Even if you are being paid for that. Nothing is done unless…

  • “Prestige is our price, and admiration our method of payment. It’s important to note that in healthy, functioning teams, admiration is paid all around. Every teammate admires every other teammate — not equally, of course, but enough to keep the team together. More prestigious team members receive the most admiration, but even the least prestigious…

  • The best explanation of the differences between a product/service company i.e. Google and a platform company i.e. Amazon from someone who worked at both. https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX Yup, it’s a Google+ post.

  • Culture is the collective behaviour of your compnay

    https://vimeo.com/206656507

  • “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl h/t Breaking Smart. Need a wall print of this.

  • I often say this to my wife. The next generation will complain how little we know about sugar hazards. This talk by professor Robert H. Lustig is a good starting point. What’s good about it is not just the content but the delivery.

  • If our own history tells us anything, there is no reason why super intelligent robots won’t kill us, argues Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, in his new book. Ezra Klein digs deeper with him here.

  • Snap’s Facebook problem

    Is Snap next twitter? I don’t think so. Twitter did not have a business problem. They had the perfect business model lying in front of them. But they were busy fighting with each other. Snap is exact the opposite. It does not have any internal conflicts—atleast not that I know of. On the business side though they are…

  • Culture is what people of a community commonly believe in. So it’s bound to change when people change. It’s not something in and itself to hold onto. — from Sapiens