Sentences with phrase «about some of the things which»

I wrote about some of the things which are affecting ebook sales here.

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When you say it that bluntly, it cheapens the underlying truth, so let me attempt to be a bit more genteel: We work so that we might tend to the many other things we care about in life (the vast majority of which cost money).

They can talk about neural pathways and neurotransmitters as if those big words definitively concluded anything, which they don't, at least with our current understanding of such things.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

It would be quite fun because you have gravity, which is about 37 % that of Earth, so you'd be able to lift heavy things and bound around and have a lot of fun.

The firm also notes that a recent report from the New York Fed, which we wrote about here, discusses the role that electronic and automated trading could be playing in the bond market, particularly how these dynamics may have exacerbated the bond «flash crash,» an event JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said is the kind of thing that happens «once every 3 billion years or so.»

Stanford Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer said that there are plenty of examples in the business world in which self - management indeed leads to more efficient and productive companies, but Hsieh's March 2015 memo is an example of how he's going about things the wrong way.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

Then I started to think of it in terms of probability, which is when that poker craze happened — at least in Canada — where poker became a thing and people were talking about odds and stuff.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

Among other things, it reveals nothing about the distribution of debt, which is crucial for understanding who has done the borrowing, why, and whether we should worry about it.

Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

Among the things that may have contributed to future sentiments are uncertainty about the country's fiscal stability, taxes, and consumer spending, all of which could severely impact small business owners, Bernstein says.

The beautiful thing about franchising is that, while we may excel in certain aspects of running the business, there are areas in which we lack knowledge and / or expertise.

The best thing about this budget phone is that it's running the latest version of Android 7.0 Nougat, which is a win for security.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

Among other things, it is working hard to get publishers and advertisers interested in its Facebook Audience Network, which allows ads outside of the Facebook site or app to be targeted to users based on the data that the social network has about their interests.

This whole «good deed» thing got me thinking about how in the startup world there are also a multitude of ways in which the best of intentions can easily lead to bad decisions and lousy results.

It's the kind of thing you hear about a lot in professions like law, which used to be dominated by men but aren't as much anymore.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

With just about every other device having its on / off switch on top or on the side, it's a difficult thing to get used to, which is why I've actually become a fan of the G3 ′ s KnockOn feature.

I've been discussing this classic mistake with several entrepreneurs I know recently, including Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh, who learned a thing or two about helping business owners like me to save money after working with thousands of them through their community YEC and Forbes Councils which I'm apart of.

My list, which I've included below, is full of things that are more about people than places.

The agency has been trying to make this better, or at least it has issued a report about making it better, but FDA approval is by its very nature anti-Valley, the opposite of moving fast and breaking things — which is why so many health trackers and similar devices (even apps) are very careful about their claims.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

Here's another thing Aron likely understands about «frequent moviegoers» (which includes all age groups, not just young people): They account for 49 percent of all tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada but only 10 percent of the overall moviegoing population.

As you can imagine, we learned quite a few fun things about each half of the power couple during the revealing exchange, which took place at Betsy Layne High School in Eastern Kentucky.

The Bank of Canada didn't need to talk specifically about the prospects for non-energy exports; it provided an assessment of the U.S. economy, which is essentially the same thing.

Regardless of the defensibility of the Post «s argument about whether Snowden deserves to be prosecuted, which even the editorial board seems to be waffling on, there are two fundamental things wrong with this editorial approach.

There's the influence of the news - feed algorithm, for one thing, which is poorly understood — primarily because the company doesn't really talk about how it works.

Feloni: Are you able to get some of that satisfaction from when you joined the startup world, which was more about creating things?

Lo and behold, they started learning all sorts of interesting things about how kids decide which games are interesting and not interesting to play.

After a heady few years in which important new gizmos appeared just about every week, 2013 was more of an iterative time bereft of that One Big Thing.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

Here are three things you need to know about this change, which would affect a huge number of U.S. businesses.

«The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them.»

Perhaps the best thing about the Chromebook Pro is its display, which is part of the reason why this device beat out the likes of the Asus Chromebook Flip.

But one of the most pernicious things about health - related stress is that it seems to become a self - perpetuating cycle: people who are stressed about their health end up experiencing worse health as result, which then stresses them out more.

All of which would be one thing if it were just Jet.com attempting to find a path to consumer's wallets by being more transparent about pricing.

«It's daydreaming about your problems, which isn't a pleasant thing,» says Adam Perkins, a lecturer in the neurobiology of personality at King's College London.

Be it with nonsensical assertions or statements (which either have zero basis in fact or reality, or are just a one - dimensional, self - promotional view on things), or random what - about ism arguments (one response to the launch of a social enterprise incubator in Dubai was essentially, «What about Yemen?»)

«You have 11 players, and if you say each player can do one of 4 different things, then your number of possible actions is four to the power of 11 — which is about 4 million,» Togelius says.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

«One of the things that is interesting about the Zuckerberg gifts is he is giving to a community foundation which supports lots of different causes, instead of setting up his own foundation in his name. . .

Part - owner of C&H Fire Suppression Systems of Kitchener, Ont., which installs sprinklers around the province, Heller knows a thing or two about construction.

The impressive thing about Great Big Story, which is focused on shareable stories and integrated advertising, is that it has a really clear sense of purpose.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

Another great thing about Yo!Kart is that there is no compromise on the features, regardless of which plan you choose.

No, I don't, which is one of the things that really appeals to me about it.