MIKarlsen

Holy moly. I had no idea this was such a hot topic. I tried "HintHunt" in London two years ago and loved it. Back in Aarhus, Denmark where I'm from, we just got our own version called "Escape Factory". I'm gonna try it with work in a few weeks.

I would seem like something that could easily be turned into a good business given the popularity-level, and the ability to simply franchise the concept on a global scale with the same rooms and structures. Only "problem" would perhaps be that it's not something you do again and again, which would either mean rooms would have to be retired or that your business-model would have to rely heavily on activating new customers over and over.

Tried London - was also a blast!

Going to the local "Escape Factory" in Aarhus, Denmark in a few weeks with work. Fairly new location with a "Enigma" (WW2) themed room. Hope it can deliver!

A supplementary article from WSJ "Why Companies have Stopped Outsourcing IT": http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/10/14/why-companies-have-s...

Synhtetic rhino-horn is a clever idea, but one could suspect that once it goes "mainstream", the demand will also rise. Or am I completely wrong?

This might be far out, but could it also hint that we are very unproductive while using social media and apps, and in general not creating any value (which to my knowledge are some of the biggest time-consumers when on mobile)?

I mean, when I'm on social media, I'm rarely cross-checking information, let alone doing something useful with the information I find. So I don't need to search. It's basically pure consumption.

Perhaps that's just the general thing about mobile - that people aren't productive while not near their computers. Personally, I never use my smartphone for anything then note-taking, and even that is a tedious task. That being said, I actually Google more often since I got an Android phone, due to the fact that the Google-search bar is on my front-page, and so I don't need to open my browser manually.

I can agree with this on so many levels. As a student in a somewhat challenged branch of it, I often feel like me and my fellow students are "wasting" time on merely explaining theories, when in reality, a lot of us are very eager to get our hands dirty with something real.

Universities have a limited amount of ressources which means that you're pretty much left alone to figure your entire study-plan out to yourself, including picking partners and/or cases for examns. While this is not at all impossible, I know for a fact that a lot of students around me are eager to participate in something that weighs a little heavier than their own interest in social media or gaming.

That is not technological determinism. Technological determinism would suggest that this happens WITHOUT OUR SOCIAL WORLDS BEING ABLE TO INTERVENE. I don't subscribe to this.

Read this by Sally Wyatt - https://prezi.com/x06bsuq4an_o/technological-determinism-is-...

I'm a student, and I've been unfortunate enough to experience stress first hand. Not just "Ohh, I'm so busy"-stress, but real stress. The essence of the quote is that if something is not right, it's because you did something wrong. At least that's how I read it. Most of the time during my period with stress, those were the thoughts that ruined me the most. I felt lost in my education and as a result, I blamed myself for not doing "more". I think it's a dangerous mindset to live by, as there are so many things in the world you have absolutely no control over. Not everything is fair, and if you blame yourself for your own or others failures and mistakes all the time, you will most likely run yourself down very fast. Unfortunately, I see this mindset a lot. As a student, you're the only one to blame for your failures - or so it seems in the public debate (at least where I am from). Attempting to help is noble, but in no way would I recommend anyone to try to take the problems of the world they live in on their own shoulders.

TL;DR: You can't control everything. Forcing yourself into a mindset where you think you do will be your ruin.

This was my thoughts as well. It seems like laying low for a couple of weeks (if you can afford it) would be the easiest way to avoid possible threats. Rent a car and go to another state or something.

If we have to go all "Jason Bourne" on it, renting a car would probably make it harder for people to track where you are going, should they have access to flight-transfer systems etc.

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more."

One-way street to an even more individualized society where even more teenagers and students can get stressed out.

I think the first mistake here would be to consider Reddit as a one entity. Reddit is a weird place where content grow out of distinct subreddits, and sometimes, that content end up on the front-page (which I bet is the most commonly visited on Reddit). The discussions and "We are the Reddit army" is often a big fat joke (or circlejerk as Reddit calls it). People get eachother riled up, and start to believe that they have "a right" to dictate anything and everything regarding to the site politics. Just watch the whole fat-shaming incident. People were acting like someone was put on death-row, while pretty much all the management of the site did was take down a few horrible sub-reddits that made a laughing stock of people with serious problems. People started arguing that "condoning fat people was wrong" as if that was ever an argument. I think Reddit is beyond management. Last night I read that they're working on a new algorithm for the front-page which is probably the closest you get to control the "community" at this point.

The connection would be that with CSR, VW hhas a lot to love up to. Without those promises, they might not have felt a need to push the buttons they did.

Perhaps it's because CSR is just a facade. Too often we're seeing companies branding themselves as customer-centric, and with the large volume of tehchnology-illiterate in the population, people believe anything/doesn't question their own consumption and The consequences hereof. I have friends who volunteer 6 months in Thailand to work with children only to come home and post instagram pictures of new Nike sneakers once every month (as far as I know Nike doesnt exactly have the vest reputation in regards to child labour).

Most of the time, I feel like people don't give a shit about their consumer habits because they are not motivated by The difference these habits make in the long run ør in a global perspective. It's all about getting those likes. "Supporting" companies with a good CSR profile is a good step towards these likes.

Look up how many people shared and signed up for anti-Kony marches in social media and find the articles that show how many actually showed (it was under 100 I think).

I may be extrapolating here, but I don't think my point can ever be proven even of I'm right.