A maximizer is someone who researches, comparison shops and works hard to make sure they get the absolute very best.
A satisficer is someone who is happy with good enough.
Many of us are maximizers about some things and satisficers about others. Which is the better strategy?
Maximizing may give better objective results — but makes us unhappier in the end:
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/is-it-better-to-settle
LLEVANDO LA ANIMACIÓN DE LA LECTURA A LAS COMUNIDADES RURALES:
“Anyone who was not out working the fields – tending the celery that is the main crop here – was waiting for our arrival. The 23 children at the little school were very excited.
Bibilomu-u-u-u-las!!! they shouted as the bags of books were unstrapped.”
http://bibliomulasuvm.blogspot.co.uk/
“… which also means the end of the average worker.
For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired,” says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they’re told, there’s some kind of safety net, or pension plan that’s waiting for them. But the days when people were able to get above average pay for average work are over.
Real life under the curtain of the “cloud business”… Blood and slaughter…
Scaring…
“To be honest, publishing is a quaint little industry based on romance and low profit margins. But now we’re in Amazon’s sights, and they’re going to kill us”
“Online piracy is harmful and it needs to be addressed, but not at the expense of censoring creativity, stifling innovation or preventing the creation of new, lawful digital distribution methods.”
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/01/open-letter-to-washington-from-artists.html
“scientific opinion will forever remain split as to whether the Universe teems with life or we are alone in the inky blackness.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16068809
Michael Serbinis CEO of Kobo (a succesful canadian ebooks platform) after being buyed out by the japanese giant Rakuten:
“This concept that your library, your content is going to be with you forever, but the device will come and go, and you pick up where you left off, whether it’s a page of your book or your overall music library, the moment you fire up your new device.”
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/the-engadget-interview-kobos-michael-serbinis/
“Somehow when we imagined the future of smart computer companions we assumed that shouting at them from across the room to do our bidding was part of the package.”
The dream has come true.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/eb7d/?mobile=0
The study’s researchers wondered why people continued to use manual foldering when it was clearly less efficient.
They concluded that need to file emails in folders was not to make it easier to find those emails later – it was a reaction to being overwhelmed by email volume. “Users receiving many messages were more likely to create folders, possibly because this serves to rationalise their inbox, allowing them to better see their ‘todos’,” the study said.
Filing was essentially driven by task management and using the inbox as a task to-do list, which the study implied was not an efficient practice.
http://boxfreeit.com.au/Productivity/tip-want-to-be-more-productive-dont-file-your-email.html