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Friday, August 10th, 2007Hey! You’ve Got Future In My Present!
Reminds you of the Reese’s Peanut Butter cup commercial, doesn’t it? “Hey! You got chocolate in my peanut butter! No, you’ve got peanut butter in my chocolate!”
And it looks as though the blending of science and the role consciousness plays is accelerating.
When WSJ Science Editor, Sharon Begley interviewed the Dalai Lama, she [...]
How Saddam Hussein Can Make You A Better Entrepreneur*
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Amazing the difference a dead, brutal dictator can make to companies worldwide. Nice to know that in death he can serve a higher purpose than he ever did in life.
So, what can Saddam Hussein teach you about running your business more effectively, and how did that same lesson turn
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Passing Poverty Mindset To Next Generation*
Friday, July 27th, 2007“He’s too materialistic,” she said. “But we work on this daily.”
I was shocked at my friend’s email where she complained about her teenaged son’s “materialism” (her words, not mine).
Isn’t self-centeredness and materialism a part of most teenagers’ mindsets?
Her complaint came at a time when I was noticing,
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Want To Sell More? Talk to Broca*
Friday, July 20th, 2007No, not the man, but that area of the brain that says yea or nay to what you’ll pay attention to, Broca’s Area. How do you like that, you’ve got an area in your brain named after someone else, and a dead guy to boot.
We all know that incorporating multiple sensory elements into your advertising [...]
Got Enough Brains To Turn The TV Off?*
Friday, July 13th, 2007Soon you won’t even have to hunt for the remote to turn the tube on and off . . . or TiVo a favorite show . . . or change channels. With this new technology from Japan, you will be able to do all that by controlling electronic devices with your mind.
Cool stuff, Maynard!
The “brain-machine interface” developed
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How Barbie Outsmarted Conservatives, Feminists & PC’ers*
Friday, July 6th, 2007Breasts or no breasts? Up to the late 50’s, it was never a question. Dolls had no breasts and were essentially shaped like children.
But Ruth Handler noticed her daughter Barbara preferred playing with dolls that looked like adults rather than like children and thus in 1959 inventor, entrepreneur and later Mattel prez Handler created and introduced [...]
Pearls Of Wisdom From The Unlikeliest Places*
Friday, June 29th, 2007Recent associations and one client project have me looking at “sham” and “skeptic” websites and blogs more often than I’d like.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the need to critically think and critically examine claims is more important now than ever before in history.
But I was surprised at how often . . . well, I’m going to have [...]
Marketing Ancient Wisdom’s Next Generation*
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Did you miss this great observation in my Comments section? You might have because when all the fur was flying during the “Rhonda Byrne stole my book and made $60M from it” debate, “Anon” made some points on my blog about reinvention that need to be addressed.
In response, I’ll show that “repackaging information” does not automatically [...]
Walter’s Quantum Physics: It’s All About Me, Me, Me, Isn’t It?*
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Ahhh . . . the ideal science — mine. After all, what good is it if it doesn’t have immediate, practical applications to me? And you should often filter the information through that lens (with you being the focus of the ‘me’ part, not me, me).
Otherwise it’s just a philosophy until you directly experience it. At [...]
The Big Unfinished Business*
Friday, June 8th, 2007Let’s not get confused here, “popular science” does not mean ‘most accurate’ science. It just means there are two kinds of science in today’s world. There’s what’s most popularly among the scientific opinion-makers, and then there are those on the
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