Thursday, September 25, 2014

Divorce, please...

These 4 Things Kill Relationships

 "Criticism – Complaints are fine. Criticism is more global — it attacks the person, not their behavior. They didn’t take out the garbage because they forgot, but because they’re a bad person.

 Contempt – “…name-calling, eye-rolling, sneering, mockery, and hostile humor. In whatever form, contempt – the worst of the four horsemen – is poisonous to a relationship because it conveys disgust. It’s virtually impossible to resolve a problem when your partner is getting the message that you’re disgusted with him or her.”

 Defensiveness – “…defensiveness is really a way of blaming your partner. You’re saying, in effect, ‘The problem isn’t me, it’s you.’ Defensiveness just escalates the conflict, which is why it’s so deadly.”

 Stonewalling – Tuning out. Disengaging. This doesn’t just remove the person from the conflict, it ends up removing them, emotionally, from the relationship." 

http://time.com/3174575/these-4-things-kill-relationships/

Garbage little ballerina

Little garbage ballerina

Why we’re letting Virgin staff take as much holiday as they want

"There is no need to ask for prior approval and neither the employees themselves nor their managers are asked or expected to keep track of their days away from the office. It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a month off, the assumption being that they are only going to do it when they feel a hundred per cent comfortable that they and their team are up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business – or, for that matter, their careers!" http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/why-were-letting-virgin-staff-take-as-much-holiday-as-they-want #workplacepolicies #economics #WorkLifeBalance

Wild wild west @alfragide #justframeit #window #windows

Wild wild west @alfragide #justframeit #window #windows

Red factory chimney against blue skye #justframeit #window #windows

Red factory chimney against blue skye #justframeit #window #windows

Foggy seagull shilhoute @ericeira #window #windows #justframeit

Foggy seagull shilhoute @ericeira #window #windows #justframeit

Thursday, September 4, 2014


Germans do it better!
"Daimler installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it "
As always the comments are too funny...


#workplacepolicies #economics #WorkLifeBalance

Saturday, July 19, 2014

house of the infinite by alberto campo baeza stretches towards the ocean http://www.designboom.com/architecture/alberto-campo-baeza-house-of-the-infinite-vt-house-cadiz-07-17-2014/

Waterfront House On A Mountain

http://www.fubiz.net/2014/07/18/waterfront-house-on-a-mountain/ http://vimeo.com/50988742

#InsideOut #view #lisbon #lisboa #doorsandwindows #windows

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Is reduced salt intake linked to the fall in deaths from cardiovascular disease? - Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/275507.php#.U0zsgJog1zU.twitter

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Prison crisis, Dutch style: too few prisoners http://bigstory.ap.org/article/prison-crisis-dutch-style-too-few-prisoners
Why Munich Went Ahead and Set Up 6 Official 'Urban Naked Zones' - Feargus O'Sullivan - The Atlantic Cities http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2014/04/why-munich-went-ahead-and-set-6-official-urban-naked-zones/8852/
Man with first name 'God' runs into credit-rating issues http://nyp.st/1naaual
 American teens don’t hang out at malls anymore. They eat at restaurants http://qz.com/197740 via @qz

Saturday, April 12, 2014

When she wants sex more
The stereotype is of a frigid wife, but plenty of women find themselves the more desiring partner

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/28/when_she_wants_sex_more/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Friday, April 11, 2014

A trial in Sweden is reducing work hours to just 30 hours a week


The experiment is based on the theory that after six hours, employees become tired and productivity is reduced.

Deputy mayor Mats Pilhem told the Swedish edition of The Local that a six-hour workday produced positive results at a car factory in the city, and he hopes that the trial will reduce inefficiency and create more jobs.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/09/new-work-life-balance-france-sweden-laws-countries-better-job-hours-work



#workplacepolicies #economics #WorkLifeBalance
"employees must ignore their bosses' work emails once they are out of the office and relaxing at home"

http://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2014/apr/09/french-6pm-labour-agreement-work-emails-out-of-office



#workplacepolicies #economics #WorkLifeBalance

Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours

Volkswagen has agreed to stop its Blackberry servers sending emails to some of its employees when they are off-shift.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16314901

#workplacepolicies #economics

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions


http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html
What makes knowledge workers productive?
https://twitter.com/oscarberg/status/448193973710897152/photo/1
it future...

Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development?

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/03/23/2041218/ask-slashdot-moving-from-tech-support-to-development

sugar cravings? blame it on evolution...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/19/291406696/why-a-sweet-tooth-may-have-been-an-evolutionary-advantage-for-kids
I hunt sys admins https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-efforts-hunt-hack-system-administrators/ #Snowden
How to Make Yourself Do It When You Just Don't Want To http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201402/how-make-yourself-do-it-when-you-just-dont-want
medical study - butter... No link found between saturated fat and heart disease http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/10703970/No-link-found-between-saturated-fat-and-heart-disease.html
someday... I quit! 10 things that drove me out of IT http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/i-quit-10-things-that-drove-me-out-of-it/#ftag=RSS56d97e7
#window #doorsworlwide #blue #blue #sky
#doors #doorsworlwide #green #doors #doorsworlwide #green

Friday, March 21, 2014

#Lost #paradise #FonteDaTelha

#Infinitus #smoking #hand #frosted #glass

#Cotton #blue #sky

#Cotton #blue #sky by Joaquim Lopes
#Cotton #blue #sky, a photo by Joaquim Lopes on Flickr.

#Frosted #glass #hug #monster

#mini #water #can

#mini #water #can by Joaquim Lopes
#mini #water #can, a photo by Joaquim Lopes on Flickr.

#Sad #green #door #knob

#Sad #green #door #knob by Joaquim Lopes
#Sad #green #door #knob, a photo by Joaquim Lopes on Flickr.

#Red #Door #surrender #decay

#light #bulb #last #breath

#Blue #doors #doorsworlwide

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Tottenham - Benfica
O momento do jogo ahahah
Já está a treinar para o bailinho da Madeira....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFUUs8y81A

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Meal with a view @ #ericeira
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joaquimlopes/11719106643/
Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth -- even democracy

"It was all a social construct to begin with, so what changed, to get to your question, is that at the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it’s a kind of capitalism that’s totally self-defeating because it’s so narrow. It’s a winner-take-all capitalism that’s not sustaining."


http://www.salon.com/2013/05/12/jaron_lanier_the_internet_destroyed_the_middle_class/

#FutureJobs

Privacy and data protection

Privacy and data protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNEPaGFApX4 #privacy #liberty #freedom In the digital age, data plays ...