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#spring Sunday in the park

Great cover of a classic Ride Song

parislemon:

Fine, I’ll share this too just because it’s such an awesome abomination. 

Will Google’s new augmented display product be a game-changer for the healthcare? Here are some possible uses for physicians, patients, and industry.

pharmageek-lionelreichardt:

At the start of each year our US colleagues take a look at the key trends in the digital landscape and the opportunities they present in healthcare. For 2013,

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It looks like Facebook is redesigning its disease pages to support search graph. Interesting opportunities for pharma…

Visually arresting trailer for commercial fishing documentary. Got seasick just watching it. 

chicagobusiness:

In an era when execs like to work out at lunch and drink sparingly, the martini is still alive and well at Chicago’s Gene & Georgetti.

In red-leather booths that run along walls lined with faded photos of celebrities, executives seal deals, forge relationships and share information at Gene’s. And they do it three, four or five times a week. The Chicago Board of Trade and Mercantile Exchange sealed their merger here.

“There’s not a steakhouse in Chicago that doesn’t idolize what they’ve done,” says David Flom, co-owner of Chicago Cut Steakhouse.

lohrien:

Sarah Dennis

The 4-Hour Chef is more ambitious than the first two 4-Hour books. It’s more about the author’s philosophy on learning and how to quickly acquire skills. Learning how to cook is the fundamental example. 

There is some useful information and and some decent and easy recipes. He does a great job of simplifying and deconstructing the cooking process down to the level where almost anyone can easily cook a restaurant quality meal. I tried his streak recipe and it turned out to be one of the best I’ve ever made. Anyone who enjoys cooking will benefit from learning the “4-Hour” techniques. 

But overall the book was disorganized, covering a set of broad set of topics that range from survivalism to how to get treated like a VIP at a restaurant. The first part of the book focuses on hyper-learning and memorization techniques…there are many books that do a much better job of teaching this skill - tryMoonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything I would have enjoyed the book more if Ferriss had narrowed his focus on just cooking. 

This new brasserie might be my new favorite restaurant in Chicago. 

Facebook’s recent unveiling of its “graph search” feature could have some interesting implications for people looking for health-related information online–especially for those looking for others with similar health concerns and experiences.

nevver:

1. Write
2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6. Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
7. Laugh at your own jokes.
8. The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

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laureola:

American Airlines redesign proposal by Anna Kovecses

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nevver:

Another day, another dollar

And you thought your job sucked!

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