Yale Marketing Seminar
A few weeks ago I presented my talk, “Of Two Minds”, at a Marketing Seminar for the Yale School of Business. Check it out:
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A few weeks ago I presented my talk, “Of Two Minds”, at a Marketing Seminar for the Yale School of Business. Check it out:
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, and a great week to the rest of you. I will not be blogging for a bit, because I’ll be vacationing in the Galapagos, with my favorite evolutionary biology books no doubt at my side.
“With luck, Ted Kennedy will be dead soon.” She uttered these words two minutes after expressing hope that the nation would rally behind Obama. A lifelong Republican, she had voted for McCain. I expect she harbored concerned about Obama’s terrorist pals and his anti-American pastor. But with Obama now newly elected as president, she was…
In 1925, a handful of extremely wealthy Long Island residents tried to thwart state plans to run highways from New York City through Long Island to beaches that the masses could enjoy. These wealthy people were understandably upset, that part of their property would be taken away to make room for highways and the like….
Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn relates the following from Einstein as one of his favorite all time quotes: “There are only two ways to live our life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” My thought: Can’t we live as if SOME things are miracles???…
“If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.” -Clay Shirky (Click here to view comments)
I have long been a fan of single sentence paragraphs. I really have. When used properly, an occasional one-off sentence can really stand out, amidst the tumble of longer paragraphs made up of complicated sentences. Here’s a good example from The Power Broker. In this part of the book, Robert Moses has spent an intense…