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Sometimes culture has to change in deep and uncomfortable ways to take advantage of advances in technology. In small ways we feel the pull on a daily basis. What about even bigger changes? For example, here's a video of a typist operating a typewriter designed for the Chinese language. It's a complex language with no alphabet. It was and is difficult to make the language compatible with communication technology from the telegraph on. Language is a massive part of who you are and how you think individually and culturally. The language would have to change fundamentally in order to fit the technological framework, and as you can image, this is not something people want to do if they can avoid it. What changes are you struggling with?

Chinese typewriter 中文打字機 1978

Here Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, plugs his new book by talking about what it means to embrace an entrepreneurial spirit as an individual.

A State of Permanent Beta LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Ben Cashnocha on their book,

VIDEO: Danile Kahneman on Charlie Rose talking about using intuition when we should be rational, and how he's not busy working as a consultant because organizations believe rational thinking causes issues with leadership.

Thinking Fast and Slow | Workplace Partners Daniel Kahneman on Charlie Rose talking about ‘fast’ or intuitive-style thinking, and ‘slow’ or willful, rational thinking. Unsurprisingly, we do too much fast thinking and it’s not to our advantage despite Malcolm Gladwell’s assertions in ‘Blink.’ Kahneman addresses this directly.

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