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Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists

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Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists
By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com

The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation.

In the sum­mer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accept­ed an award at the Acad­e­my of Achieve­ment. Dur­ing his brief speech, he hit what would become…

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Learn to code with these online resources

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Learn to Code for Free With These 10 Online Resources
Zoe Fox, mashable.com

Click here to view this galleryIf Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true: Understanding how to code is the new literacyTake Zuck and Gates’ advice — learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs and…

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How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

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How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

Futur­ist and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence guru Ray Kurzweil has just start­ed at Google and gave an inter­view to Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Hub days after start­ing his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into nat­ur­al lan­guage…

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Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

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businessweek.com

In his most wide-ranging interview since succeeding Steve Jobs, Tim Cook talks about how the company now works, the view that he’s “robotic,” and the return of Apple manufacturing to the U.S.

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Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

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Why Apple will grow faster with Tim Cook

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Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More
Paul Spiegelman, inc.com

THE CULTURE GAP

How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’.

Much has been writ­ten about the bril­liance of Steve Jobs and the icon­ic com­pa­ny that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser focus on t…

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Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

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Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering
Alexis Santos, engadget.com

Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­…

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Bio mimicry and Steve Jobs last remarks

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How Can Designers and Architects Use Biomimicry to Stay on the Cutting Edge of Innovation? | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Diane Pham says:, inhabitat.com

Short­ly before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs said, “I think the biggest inno­va­tions of the 21st cen­tu­ry will be at the inter­sec­tion of biol­o­gy and tech­nol­o­gy. A new era is beginning.” The cross­roads that he spoke of actu­al­ly has a n…

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Quotes from Steve Jobs

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12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day
Zoe B, lifehack.org

Steve Jobs was not just a vision­ary genius, but a man with an incred­i­ble pas­sion for inno­va­tion, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his reflec­tion in the mir­ror each morn­in…

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Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

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An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates
By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com

Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down.

[The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter Sander (McGraw…

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Why biotech CEOs need to think like Steve Jobs

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Image representing Steve Jobs as depicted in C...
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Why biotech CEOs need to think like Steve Jobs – The Boston Globe.

Interesting article on creativity in biotech communications. many CEOs are hired with communications backgrounds and humanities degrees. Infinity pharmaceuticals was a philosophy professor.

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