September 2008
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Which campaign is telling the better story?
Rational thinking suggests that people should make their political decisions on concrete information (or at least as concrete as you can get when it comes to politicians): policy positions, stated objectives, past performance. But if anything has become clear in this election cycle — as in the several before it — it’s that voters don’t seem particularly motivated by...
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That's it, I'm moving to Maine
Today marks the first official day of autumn, but in my eyes fall arrived last week, when the Fall/Winter 2008 L.L. Bean catalog landed in my mailbox.
Flipping through the pages got me geeked about the changing of the leaves, and depsite the ten feet of snow I shoveled last winter, I started getting pre-nostalgic for our first snowfall. Though I love the fall and winter gear I already own...
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Thinking inside the box
I bought a new pair of running shoes last week (Brooks Defyance, purchased from Runner’s Alley, of course), and as I was about to toss the tissue paper from the shoebox into the recycling, I noticed something was printed on there besides just the Brooks logo. Mixed in with the pattern of repeating Brooks logos were repeating triangular recycling logos, as well as text. The first snippet of...
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Stories we tell ourselves
Bob Sutton (author of The No Asshole Rule) had a great post last week about how what we believe impacts how we act, citing two research studies on the phenomenon. The first revealed that:
people who believe that “being smart” results from learning and experience are much more likely to try new things, to ask “dumb” questions, and to risk failing. In contrast, people who...
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Hell is Chrome*
If you haven’t heard yet, Google announced today the launch of Chrome, their new, built-from-scratch browser. Because it’s Google, there are already (as of 3 pm EDT) 13,000+ Google news results for a search on “Google Chrome,” and because it’s a browser, the buzz among the tech media is whether or not it will be a Windows killer.
I’ll let the professionals...