The twenty percent policy

There’s been some talk about how innovative Google is in allowing its engineers to spend 20 percent of their time on personal projects. Turns out, Toshiba was already doing this in the 70s. The Japanese electric typewriter — no small achievement — was developed as such a personal project.

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Proximity

Proximity is addicting. By what logic are the numbers presented?

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I wasn’t wrong, I was just using creative pronunciation

PBS has 100 examples from The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide For The Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster.

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