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Olympic Tearjerker Advert

May 22, 2012 by Chris

If there was anyone who forgot this is an Olympic year, prepare yourself, because the emotional ad campaigns leading up to the London Olympics have already started.  This Mother’s Day ad from Procter and Gamble will make you wish your kids had athletic ambitions.  Or … it might make you appreciate the sacrifices your mother made for you.

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Sleeping on the Job? Overachievers Do!

May 22, 2012 by Chris

Bloomberg Businessweek recently wrote about the benefits of power-napping:

Don’t expect to find Ronit Rogoszinski in meetings, entertaining clients, or hunched over her desk around lunchtime. The 45-year-old wealth adviser and financial planner in New York describes herself as an expert “practitioner of the power nap.” After waking up at about 5 a.m., sending her kids off to school, and putting in a morning of meeting with clients, Rogoszinski needs to crash. “By noon, my brain starts to fry,” she says. So she heads to one of her hideouts—her car, for example—to recharge. As she puts it, “I’m not quite sure how I’d handle the day without that timeout.”

Rogoszinski is by no means a lone clandestine sleeper. Comments on Wall Street Oasis, a Web forum popular among investment bankers, reveal an obsessive interest in daytime napping, with tips on “sleep hacking” (moving to polyphasic sleep schedules), recommendations on where to doze (bathroom stalls, conference rooms), and directions for how to act when caught (as if nothing unusual had happened). When nodding off on a toilet, “you clearly need the seat down for maximum comfort,” advises one commenter, “which necessitates pants up to prevent your bare ass on the cold porcelain. Longest I ever slept uninterrupted without tipping over was two hours, from 4-6am.”

Many Wall Street types use power-napping to make up for lost sleep. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey lists finance as the eighth-most-sleep-deprived occupation. (Home health aides, lawyers, police officers, and paramedics make up the top four.) In another study, published in January in Administrative Science Quarterly, Dr. Alexandra Michel of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business mapped the sleep deprivation of investment bankers over a nine-year period. She discovered that maladies including back pain, depression, and physical tics emerge—and affect performance—as soon as the fourth year on the job.

No matter what the science says, sleeping on the job remains a covert op. Rogoszinski once fell asleep on a patterned sweater, which blew her cover and left an imprint on her face. Her colleagues still tease her about it. “Be sure to rest on smooth surfaces,” she cautions.

Go check out the full article.

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Top 10 Countries By User On LinkedIn

May 22, 2012 by Chris

Fascinated by Bill’s post on the Top 10 Countries By User On LinkedIn

1: UNITED STATES

Total LinkedIn Users: 58,526,154
Penetration of population: 18.87%
Penetration of online pop.: 24.46%
Facebook Users: 157,067,260

2: INDIA

Total LinkedIn Users: 13,352,622
Penetration of population: 1.14%
Penetration of online pop.: 16.48%
Facebook Users: 4,589,992

3: UNITED KINGDOM

Total LinkedIn Users: 8,367,732
Penetration of population: 13.42%
Penetration of online pop.: 16.27%
Facebook Users: 30,595,980

4: BRAZIL

Total LinkedIn Users: 6,864,270
Penetration of population: 3.41%
Penetration of online pop.: 9.04%
Facebook Users: 45,340,600

5: CANADA

Total LinkedIn Users: 5,118,842
Penetration of population: 15.16%
Penetration of online pop.: 19.52%
Facebook Users: 17,631,840

6: FRANCE

Total LinkedIn Users: 3,224,580
Penetration of population: 4.98%
Penetration of online pop.: 7.23%
Facebook Users: 24,204,920

7: NETHERLANDS

Total LinkedIn Users: 3,134,628
Penetration of population: 18.68%
Penetration of online pop.: 21.08%
Facebook Users: 6,420,560

8: ITALY

Total LinkedIn Users: 2,819,476
Penetration of population: 4.85%
Penetration of online pop.: 9.39%
Facebook Users: 2,1594,760

9: AUSTRALIA

Total LinkedIn Users: 2,799,320
Penetration of population: 13.17%
Penetration of online pop.: 16.43%
Facebook Users: 10,988,140

10: SPAIN

Total LinkedIn Users: 2,631,818
Penetration of population: 5.66%
Penetration of online pop.: 9.05%
Facebook Users: 16,278,420

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Email ‘vacations’ decrease stress, increase concentration

May 21, 2012 by Chris

In a recent study conducted by the University of California, Irvine, researchers attached heart rate monitors to office workers while also monitoring what programs they were using, and what did they find? Probably something you already knew: Frequent email checkers are stressed out, and removing the constant email-checking from a worker’s habits meant more focus and productivity, less stress.

People who read email changed screens twice as often and were in a steady “high alert” state, with more constant heart rates. Those removed from email for five days experienced more natural, variable heart rates.

“We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask less and experience less stress,” said UCI informatics professor Gloria Mark.

The key here is that frequent email checkers experience the most significant problems, with researchers suggesting that “controlling email login times, batching messages or other strategies might be helpful.” It’s an idea we’re familiar with but so few of us actually try and experience the benefits of.

Something I will be giving a try this week, will you join me in this?

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Carl Trueman Interviews J. I. Packer

May 21, 2012 by Chris

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Nicholas Bate – The Stages of Life

May 21, 2012 by Chris

Loved The Stages of Life blog post by Nicholas Bate:

Baby 7

  1. Milk
  2. Milk
  3. Sleep
  4. Scream
  5. Sleep
  6. Milk
  7. Milk

Toddler 7

  1. Mmm?
  2. Curious..
  3. What’s this?
  4. Crash!
  5. What do you mean ‘no’?
  6. Mmm?
  7. Curious..

Child 7

  1. Why?
  2. Why?
  3. Why?
  4. Why?
  5. Why?
  6. Why?
  7. zzzZZ…

Adolescent 7

  1. Maybe
  2. Whatever
  3. Sure
  4. Later
  5. Ok
  6. Yep
  7. Uhhuh

College Student 7

  1. Essay crisis
  2. Party
  3. Party
  4. Hangover
  5. Essay crisis
  6. Party
  7. Debt

College Graduate

  1. Where
  2. Have
  3. All
  4. My
  5. Hopes
  6. & Dreams
  7. Gone?

Adult 7

  1. Is
  2. This
  3. It?
  4. Mail,
  5. Slide-decks,
  6. Commuting,
  7. And crashed pension schemes?

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West Ham return to the Premiership beating Blackpool, 2-1

May 21, 2012 by Chris

Ricardo Vaz Te’s 87th minute goal won the match and ensured the Hammers return to the Premiership after spending a season away.  Afterwards, Sam Allardyce called Vaz Te the best ever signing he had made – and he’s made a few!  The Hammers join Reading and Southampton as the promoted teams.

Spare a thought for Ian Holloway and Blackpool their luck ran out in the playoffs, losing what is thought to be the most important game in the world.

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