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Rather, here are some things I’ve been reading
- MyType study: iPad owners are ‘selfish elites’
- The real money in Farmville
- Windows Phone 7 Dev tools are released
- Child Up is going through John Medina’s book – Brain Rules For Baby, which does not seem to be coming out on the Kindle.
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Weddings and honeymoons do tend to trump everything else, in a very good way. It’s also been mop-up work on everything else, so there hasn’t been that much to way.
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came across some of Richard Florida’s work online yesterday (Florida is the author of “The Creative Class” and the creator of the notion that creative people should self-segregate) and I began wondering: why do Ivy League institutions produce so few creative people? Continue reading “Is an Ivy League education pointless for creative people?” »
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After reading this article on the phenomenon of Farmville I revised my notions of wealth. I previously categorized wealth in the following two ways:
- Owning Money – how much money do you have in the bank account, or can be converted to cash quickly. Most people regard money wealth as the only wealth
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My new commandment: Never complain about anything. Ever. If you feel the need to complain to pressure someone else to make something happen, then be honest and call it manipulation.
I realized this while at a client meeting; we were talking about problems with a botched sales program and the staff had a litany of complaints about the program (ed. note: it was created by a separate vendor years ago, and the fault lies with the now-departed project manager who designed something inappropriate. It does a masterful job of integrating legacy systems from different vendors, languages, platforms, a mainframe and Europeans are involved somehow, but the user interface is wanting. But I digress…). Then I remembered hearing the same litany of complaints a year ago. Unlike last year, I offered suggestions on how to make small improvements to the program. Everyone proceeded to ignore me and continued complaining. At the end of the meeting everyone felt a lot better once they had talked about their problems. No one made any plans to actually fix the problems. Continue reading “Why you should never complain about anything – with anecdotal proof!” »
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Via some Twitter link I can no longer find, I stumbled across these two posts.
- Nootropics: their effects, their risks, and where to get them – I think I’ll be picking up some Thiamine and sticking with that, as the others seem a bit scary. It is a fascinating bit of research though. Nootropics are “Smart Drugs”
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I read this quote in the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Twitter Feed ( the AJC (Twitter, @AJC) is the main paper here in Atlanta))
We’re trying to pin down the name of the College Park recording studio. It’s at the 3200 Block of E. Main St. Can you help us?
and I started wondering if the future of news was as either a medium (like FaceBook) or as the medium + the lead collaborator. I.E. the newspaper supplies the forum (in the form of a website, and the print service, whatever that winds up being) and serves as the lead collaborator. To use a sports analogy, The future of newspapers is like a company that owns a baseball park, and provides a full time pitcher.
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