Originally published at American Small Business. 2009, I believe. Some links may be broken. It’s waaaaaay too early in the morning and I’m sweating up a frenzy on the stairstepper. It’s all about the oxygen and seratonin. I’ve got a thing for it rightaboutnow. Approaching sensory overload from the eight different plasma televisions in my […]
Inspirado
DC Countdown is ON
So I am only a few short days away from my big trip to Virginia/Washington DC. It’s sorta crazy that I have made it all these years without ever being to our nation’s capital. One of my favorite parts about this crazy, semi-charmed sorta life that I get to lead is that I can parlay […]
Best. Want Ad. Ever. (Ever.)
Mother Jones contends that this is… The best journalism-job want ad ever ever. I am inclined to agree.
Lesson in Grammar, Down-Under Style
Our Australian Wizard of Ads partner Craig Arthur shared this with the group yesterday. Now I share it with you… An English professor wrote the words: “A woman without her man is nothing” on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly. All of the males in the class wrote: “A woman, without […]
Randy Pausch on the “Time Famine”
Note: I posted this on a now defunct site back when Randy Pausch was still alive. I was thinking about him today…went to find it…saw the site was gone…and decided to repost here. Hope you find it worthwhile… Originally posted April 18, 2008 Who among us doesn’t feel the crush of a time deficit these […]
The Placebo Experience Factor
Listening to NPR recently, I heard a report about a study conducted by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer on the placebo effect, with an interesting twist. According to NPR’s Alix Spiegel… the study “seems to challenge our basic assumptions about the relationship between the physical body and the mind — and perhaps even our assumptions about the […]