Editors

Turns out that for the last seventeen twenty-seven years, every single movie that managed to win the Oscar for best picture was also nominated for best editing.

Great products, amazing services and stories worth talking about get edited along the way. Most of the time, the editing makes them pallid, mediocre and boring. Sometimes, a great editor will push the remarkable stuff. That’s his job.

The easy thing for an editor to do is make things safe. You avoid trouble that way. Alas, it also means you avoid success.

Who’s doing your editing?

(by Seth Godin)

Pro Bono

Not only lawyers sometimes work on Pro Bono based project. Now you can also join thousands of top marketing, IT, HR and design professionals who are making a meaningful impact by volunteering their skills and expertise in the community.
But what’s the profit then……..doing non-profit work? That question can be simply answered with ‘becoming a better designer!’.

The Egg of de Soto.

Is it really true that third world problems can be solved by creating capital and is the missing law the causer of poverty. I think that pure freedom can lead to a stabel economy. This freedom does not mean there can’t be property and capitalism, but governments must give their citizens freedom of trading and a stabel law to live with. Capitalism is not an Bad thing if you use it right.

This documentary is about a man called Hernando de Soto, who is a major economist and thinks he has found the problem causing poverty in societies all over the world. He wrote the bestselling book ‘The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else’ with the main tenet that people in developing countries lack such an integrated formal property system, leading to only informal ownership of land and goods. He argues that the start of economic success of American and Japanese capitalism relied on a clear system of property rights which was created during the times of the ‘frontier’ in America and in post-WWII Japan. The lack of such an integrated system of property rights in today’s Third World Countries makes it impossible for the poor to make their now informal ownerships into capital, which de Soto claims would form the basis for entrepreneurship. Farmers in much of the developing world remain trapped in subsistence agriculture. As such, he argues that this informal ownership should be made formal, for example by giving official papers for the land they now live on.

Borsten voor je verjaardag!

Niet normaal dit! Meisjes van 19 die voor een borstvergroting gaan. Het zou verboden moeten worden. Eerst waren piercings en oorbellen iets waar je als ouder je kind voor wilde weerhouden, maar nu durft de puberende jeugd zelfs na te denken over deze cosmetische ingrepen. En dan is het enige wat je zegt als huge-money-making-chirurg: deze ingrepen zijn terug te draaien en een piercing laat voor altijd een lidteken achter………….of…………tuurlijk neem ik deze meisjes serieus, anders zou ik de arts-patient-relatie niet serieus nemen ($$$$$$$$$$)!…………..Pffffffff…………flatdrol.