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Monthly Archives: May 2009
When Will The Market Hit Bottom? CNBC always knows.
One of my favorite things to do everyday is to visit CNBC.com and read about their new prediction of the MARKET BOTTOM. Threw the power of the Internet we can trace just how completely wrong they are every time. Lesson: … Continue reading
Posted in economics, musings, web 2.0
Tagged CNBC, market bottom, predicting stock markets
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Eliminate All Marriage Language from the Constitutions
Oy, this crazy-making discussion is not going to be over for a long time. Why is there anything about marriage in any constitution? Yes, I know… property, children’s issues. etc. etc. Those can be resolved without marriage language. Just get … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, human rights, language, law, life
Tagged california, gay marriage, marriage ban, prop 8
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Guardrails for the Internet – Another Analogy Gone Bad
Michael Lynton responds with a confusing analogy to the blogosphere’s blast of his now infamous comment, “I’m a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period.” The fact that he’s following up to add context is great … Continue reading
Life in the Universe
instead of hunting for it, why not send it out there and see what happens? Load up several extra-solar rockets with some hearty organisms that can survive in extreme conditions. Program the recon devices to detect hospitible atmospheres/planets so that … Continue reading
Posted in science, science fiction, speculation
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Conditioned Incompetence
We often blame businesses, leaders, ourselves for “not knowing better.” The reality is, in modern American, there is a healthy amount of conditioned incompetence. Yes, as a society, we really don’t know better, don’t know different. For a very long … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, business strategy
Tagged behavior, business 2.0, cubicle, incompetence
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Lack of Vocabulary
The invention and acceptance of new vocabularies is important to the success of ideas, products, policies and methods. Many valuable new “things” are written off simply because we lack applicable metaphors, analogies and vocabulary. Many authors and inventors of new … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, jargon, linguistics, science
Tagged linguistics, product launch, vocabulary
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What Is Wolfram|Alpha Really?
Here is one of the best blog posts on putting Wolfram|Alpha into perspective: Asking which result is “right” misses the point. Google is a search engine; it did exactly what it’s supposed to do. It isn’t making any any assumptions … Continue reading
Posted in science, search, social science, software, web 2.0
Tagged Ask, computation, google, Inference, Kumo, research, search, wolfram, wolfram alpha
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The Average User
does not exist. Users all have unique histories, unique needs, unique interests and unique behaviors. Software built around the average user is bound to fail because you cannot pin point features and interfaces that work for a non existent entity. … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, product development, programming, software
Tagged average user, general use, typical user
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Think Like a Baby! – uh huh…
Boston.com has a feature about baby minds and development. It’s really unfortunate that we continue to try and refute or confirm this whole mind/consciousness (duality) thing is a concept we made up. I’m not doubting that we are consciousness and … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, brain, science
Tagged baby, baby mind, brain, child development, cognition, mind
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Seth’s right! It’s About The Do!
Great, actionable post from Seth Godin. The certain thing is that you can change everything…
Posted in business strategy, life, Management, marketing
Tagged action, business, change, do something, marketing, rut, seth godin
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