Clicking game

I don’t believe this.
Someone has set up a server to accept clicks, and rank countries according to how many clicks they have submitted. This sparked off a war of clicks in which online communities in a few countries are organising themselves to submit more clicks than their competitors, thereby pushing themselves up the list. What? [...]

work until die

Nobody notices anyway. I had a colleague who collapsed in office and everybody attributed it to overwork. When she left the company, people who were assigned to take over her tasks were shocked at how much she had been covering. Sometimes nobody knows until you disappear.

Packaging your message

I attended a course today called “Think on your feet” which teaches communication skills. To illustrate the point that the message has to be positioned and packaged so as to be acceptable to the listening party, the trainer told a joke.
Some people are not comfortable with packaging and “selling” their ideas in ways that are [...]

Coffee saves lives

Coffee saves lives, sometimes. Walking down a steep flight of steps, I almost fell to an early death because I decided to go quit coffee and stumbled in my coffee-deprived haze. Regular doses of caffeine can stave off premature death sometimes.
Students have been known to rely on it to stay awake through boring classes, and [...]

INTJ

What is your Myers-Brugss type? This is a very well known personality test to help people understand their own natural inclination. Take the test at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/mb/.
Unsurprisingly, I’m an INTJ and at least I know that I’m doing the right job suitable for my type.
E=2 Extraversion
I=9 Introversion
S=10 Sensing
N=10 iNtuition
T=18 Thinking
F=1 Feeling
J=19 Judging
P= Perceiving
You are an INTJ
INTJ [...]