Sat.Dec 03, 2016

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“If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?”

Hunter Walker

I guess Westworld has made this a hot topic, but even better (or at least shorter) is this article “ If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots? ” It turns out that, for a host of reasons the author covers, we feel moral regret when we cause or observe pain, even if the recipient can’t feel that pain, such as a robot. At one point, a roboticist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory built an unlovable, centipede-like robot designed to clear land mines by crawling forward until all it

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How To Choose The Right Business Mentor

YFS Magazine

I’ve discovered some criteria that determine if someone will make a good mentor for you.

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Weekend Favs December 3

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs December 3 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

Cloud 51
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Retail Is Dead: Austin’s Cycleast And The Economics Of 5-Star Customer Service

Austin Startup

“Retail is dead,” Russell Pickavance tells me, without hesitation. “Literally.” There’s a brief pause as he strategically frames his… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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7 Keys To Making Staff Meetings An Asset vs Expense

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals Most of us view weekly staff meetings today with a degree of trepidation and frustration. Many have suggested that it is time re-engineer this process, or eliminate the meetings entirely. In an old survey on staff meeting obstacles conducted by GroupSystems , I found the following not-so-surprising statistics for the average 50 minute staff meeting: Much time wasted on inefficient process – over 30% of the total time No meeting minutes or decis