The article said nothing about playing music but rather listening to music. The difference is like saying I can learn through osmosis as opposed to I can learn through deliberate study and practice.
If the article actually compared the benefits of fitness to the benefits of playing music - now that could speak to your question.
What about playing an instrument? Don’t you have to use right and left brain for a stringed instrument?
Yes. That has clear cognitive functions that do crossover. Especially learning to play and read the music at the same time. But exercise is number one, diet number two and then social interaction. These are the important things for brain function.
You're right, and I had that very thought in mind that these are just allegations. And, anyone familiar with the justice system should be cognizant of that by default.
My point is that she's seriously jeopardizing her career and everything she's worked for professionally by bringing these issues to the forefront. Whatever outcome occurs, Kleiner Perkins will still be standing.
That is a big sacrifice for a chance at a "payout" or validating some feminist rhetoric.
You're jumping to conclusions that she is doing what is right, and isn't either trying to get a pay out, or views her companies actions through a lens of default sexism.
Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know anything about this lawsuit but I have the strong feeling that many of her accusations are true.
Also when I read things like "[...] Christina Lee, a Kleiner Perkins spokesperson, stated the Firm regrets that the situation is being litigated publicly and had hoped the two parties could have reached resolution [...]" I feel a bit bad. What is she implying? Paying her a big sum to keep her mouth shut? ...
Anecdotes can be motivational, but they don't mean a whole lot. I've lost over 50 lbs in the past year and a half or so, and I really don't feel any different most of the time. I do have more endurance for things like running, but I don't enjoy exercise so I do it rarely.
Much of the psychological benefit of exercise comes from increased testosterone. This happens by stimulating muscles. Try to develop a regular routine for things likes squats and pullups and see if that doesn't make you feel better.
Me too. I've lost about a hundred, and now do running events.
My life has improved by a lot. Stress is now mostly gone and manageable. I'm way confident, and feel relaxed.
This mostly due to the exercise, but it is just amazing.
My skills (in everything) have just sky-rocketed. Where it would take me months to code anything, now I can just do it in days. It is really amazing.
All these anecdotes about people losing weight as a good way to improve your life- sort of assume everyone has weight to lose. What if you are healthy and athletic already? Do we miss out on the benefits of "feeling great about myself after losing 20, 50, 100 pounds"?
> Students are foolish to IGNORE the realities of the job
market for their majors as we assume more debt.
> College doesn't teach networking.
> College doesn't teach employable skills. Theory AND
Practice.
> Students don't have realistic expectations of their first
jobs after college.
> Even a little investment or initiative in learning
something practical - like SQL, Drupal, or Sharepoint -
can go a long way to opening doors to jobs students
actually want.
> Not everyone needs to be a business or engineering major,
but we, as a students, need think about life after
college more seriously than we have.
I'm a business major in a top 10 undergrad b-school now and they still don't teach networking unfortunately.
They just throw networking and recruiting info sessions DAILY, but they don't teach you how to network. They don't teach you how to explore your passions and interests, research companies working on those kinds of problems, and how to approach them for internships, jobs, etc.
Business schools succeed when they send a lot of students to corporations, so that these corporations come back and sponsor programs and stuff for the B-School. If you're interested in other jobs besides corporations, you have to find them yourself!
Sounds like they're teaching it "trial by fire." My undergrad and grad EE days: 12-hour workdays (nights?) in a dungeon-like room.
I often say to mentored students: engineering is 80% banging your head against a wall, 10% cursing, and 10% progress. It's a long, hard slog to become an expert. Daily networking events sounds like that to me (and frankly, even more unpleasant!)
Kiva is a great company. They have been innovating since day 1, tapping into various industries. Last year, they put their robots on the floors of Boston Scientific's fulfillment center - a first for them in the highly-sensitive, highly-regulated medical arena. And, to be bought in CASH... I hope employees and the founding team made out well.
I thought Bain Capital was the umbrella for all of their funds? Bain Capital Private Equity for the PE stuff and Bain Capital Ventures for the VC investments.
As I wrote on Hizook [1]... this acquisition is great news for robotics, but it kinda makes me sad. I would have liked to see Kiva go public. Plus, I certainly hope Amazon doesn't hoard Kiva away for itself and rob the world of efficient, robotic warehouses...
I feel iffy about the film comparison. Because I have studied film formally in a limited context, I can say that there's a lot of planning, communication and collaboration that goes into creating a film, from storyboarding to script writing and doctoring to photography and lighting. And, for someone familiar with the technical details of composing scenes, it is possible to get an understanding of why directors make certain decisions in keeping with a particular style.
I liken programming to that process. There's a fair amount of intention and consideration that goes into composition. With activities, such as pair programming, I argue that is possible to see inside a creator's head.
The benefit of participating in a hackathon is fluidity. There are monolithic projects for which the hackathon was not designed to address. But, at the end of the day, you're a better problem solver by working under the constraints of that kind of environment.
If the article actually compared the benefits of fitness to the benefits of playing music - now that could speak to your question.