Smart Media is the vehicle that can set you up for life and people are going to be so very grateful that you shared it with them in the very early days.

You have just seen what has happened with Facebook. How would you like a slice of something with the potential to be even bigger than Facebook?

Think I am kidding? Definitely not.

Some of you may remember the article below. Those of us who really understand what is happening with Smart Media believe this will be us… and WE are the lucky ones to know about it and benefit hugely from that knowledge.

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As part of the research for a book I’m co-authoring — Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, due out in August from HBR Press — my colleagues and I interviewed and surveyed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs around the globe to better understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur and build a really great business. One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan.

via Great Businesses Don’t Start With a Plan – Anthony Tjan – Harvard Business Review.

With that in mind: how polarised do you think Australian politics has become? Have Australians really bunkered down into bitter, warring camps on issues such as climate change and refugees?

How you answer says a lot more about you than anything else. According to a fascinating paper just published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the more radical your politics are, the more radical you imagine everybody else’s politics to be. As the authors find, ”people project their own polarisation onto others”.

Projection is a basic human trait. We believe others share more of our attitudes than they do. If we like dark chocolate, we assume others like dark chocolate. If we like walks in the park, we assume others like walks in the park. Humans are social animals: it’s important that others validate our preferences.

via The politics of projection: there’s a reason we can’t all just get along | Institute of Public Affairs Australia.

via The Fastest-Dying Jobs of This Generation and What Replaced Them – Jordan Weissmann – Business – The Atlantic.