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I read the post "Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice" on the weekend. It is mostly aimed at permanent employees at companies, although I thought there were some useful takeaways for contractors as well.
Below is my summary of the points that resonated with me:
Interesting post here summarising Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report. Basically to be in the top 1% of the global wealthy, you need to have $712,000 USD in net assets. To be in the top 10%, you need to have over $82,000 in net assets.
One percent of 7 billion is 70 million. So basically there are 70 million people in the world with $712,000 USD or more in net assets.
[EDIT] Actually, having just read the report, the results are expressed in terms of the global population of adults, 4.5 billion in 2011.
There's an interesting article over at Stanford Magazine about a new technique for reducing muscle fatigue in athletes. Apparently by rapidly cooling an athlete's hand, the athlete can train much harder as the muscles don't get as tired during repetitive exercise.