Gemma

Language can obscure. Maths cuts through that. That old canard about “lies, damned lies and statistics” only applies when we haven’t taught the population how to spot bad statistics. If you train your population to be more rigorous, ask better questions and speak the language of our technological world, then you send them into that world better equipped. But it is training and training isn’t cool! Sometimes, you just have to do it - Gemma

behave like consumers when it comes to affairs of the heart. We treat looking for love as we would approach a buffet table, say - Gemma

As an Internet celebrity, though, Lana del Rey lacks the privilege to transform. She exists not merely for the Internet; she is of it. We, the Internet, are responsible for her. We are also culpable for her. And that means that we are invested in her authenticity -- or in, more specifically, her ability to produce authenticity -- more than we are in celebrities whose origin stories are of the analog world. We are increasingly aware of ourselves as taste-makers. What my colleagues are sharing on Twitter, what my friends are listening to on Spotify, what my neighbors are rating on Yelp -- these, increasingly, are determining the products I choose to consume, as well. Their choices are influencing mine, explicitly. - Gemma

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms... taking testosterone enables many men to focus more clearly and exude confidence on the job. “If you’re going to be trading on Wall Street or dealing with large sums of money, you had better be confident,” he says. “The man who is wishy-washy is not going to be successful.” - Gemma

Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. - Gemma

Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits. - Gemma

It is important to realise that an illegal market is a completely unregulated market. The evidence indicates that decriminalising personal possession and use saves valuable police time and criminal justice resources, and does not increase the prevalence of drug use. Moreover, because users are no longer regarded as criminals, their access to education and treatment is improved and the harm caused by problem drug use is reduced. That is why, together with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, we organised a meeting of government leaders, policy makers and experts at the House of Lords in November at which we launched a Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform. - Gemma

Thanks to the internet, such spreadsheets of love have replaced notches on the bedpost and can be displayed hubristically online. They think that we're like digital cameras, that you can describe somebody by their height and weight and political affiliation and so on. But it turns out people are much more like wine. When you taste the wine, you could describe it, but it's not a very useful description. But you know if you like it or don't. And it's the complexity and the completeness of the experience that tells you if you like a person or not. love isn't like that, he complains. Love is, for him, about adventure and risk, not security and comfort. But, as he recognises, in modern liberal society this is an unwelcome thought: for us, love is a useless risk. "I really think that love, in our world such as it is, is encircled, threatened. And I think it's a philosophical task, among others, to defend it We have to discover ways of loving on a strictly temporary basis - Gemma

Acknowledge that the face they present to the world seems unrecognisable because this is the face everyone else sees, not the one you remember from across an Ikea pillow. This is how we split up now. It's a broadband break-up. This is the new upset reality. But we'll be fine. We'll be fine. - Gemma

if you want to be pro-woman, you have to be pro- all women, not just the ones whose lives have turned out like yours. - Gemma

Software pirates promote data survival through ubiquity and media independence. Like an ant that works as part of a larger system it doesn’t understand, the selfish action of each digital pirate, when taken in aggregate, has created a vast web of redundant data that ensures many digital works will live on. - Gemma

"Exploring the internet can just be picking up random factoids that don't mean anything", he said. "The person who won the Nobel prize in biology isn't the person who read the most journals. It was the person who knew what to look for," - Gemma

Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another when they are true friends, soul friends, what the Irish call anam cara. It’s what the Wrinklies did for one another, what the French resistance fighters in Auschwitz did for one another, what women do for one another in real relationships with real consequences in real time, every day, what my friends do for me. We help one another other live and sometimes, we watch – and help – one another die. It happens in movies, sure, but it also happens every day, in real life – now, tomorrow, yesterday. It is transformative and transcendent. It is real. It is love. - Gemma

HOW IS SHE 15!! “What such people don’t get is that most people who like more obscure music or wear vintage clothes don’t think of themselves as artsy, they’re just exploring and trying to define their taste instead of being someone who likes whatever is handed to them so they’re not mistaken for pretentious. I don’t like the term hipster—I think it’s become so broad as to apply to basically everyone—but the defining quality is that a hipster thinks and cares about what their tastes say about them, instead of just liking what they like. And so there is nothing more hipster than a person who decides that the only reason another person is wearing a colorful dress is that they’re concerned with what that dress means for their image. It’s hipster to give a shit if other people are hipsters or not; this is why people who claim they’re not hipsters are the most hipster of all, because they’re thinking that hard about it, and caring that much about what other people think.” - Gemma

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That’s why it seems critical to me to realise there are different kinds of thinking. And different jobs require different thinking. The lesson for me, is that we need to appreciate the differences. We don’t want to end up with people who think it’s their job to do everyone’s job. We need people who know what their own job is. And do it brilliantly. - Gemma

When opportunity abounds, people are free to pursue more narrow selection criteria, but when fewer choices are available, they must find satisfaction using broader criteria. Our findings reveal an irony – greater human diversity within an environment leads to less personal diversity. - Gemma

Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends. You've just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best chance to start something new. If you're a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day. If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/responded/insisted to what happened yesterday. - Gemma