Reading a book on dog psychology might qualify one as a genuine escentric. However writing a book on it is taking things to the next level. 🙂 In writing this great book Elisabeth Marshall Thomas logged over 100,000 hours of research watching dogs. She even went so far as going up north to observe a wolf …
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The Psychopath Test
I was introduced to this book by a show on This American Life (not sure if it was that show or this one) & a friend recommended it as well. General background notes: Psychopaths tend to lack empathy & remorse, and are very good at hiding madness through a facade of normalcy. a bit under …
The Power of Habit
This book came recommended by a couple of our customers & only took a couple days to read. It has a rich narrative to it which helps reinforce the concepts, but these are my personal notes I saved to help remember key points of Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit. 🙂 What are habits? …
Debt: the first 5,000 years
Anthropologist David Graeber is brilliant & I must have bought at least a dozen copies of this book for friends and family. Normally when I read a book I generally try to share all the highlights I made in it, however I highlighted so much of this book that it is hard to even share …
Mint Condition Book Review
I recently finished reading Dave Jamison’s Mint Condition. If you ever collected baseball cards, I highly recommend reading it. Here is an excerpt in Slate. Why Baseball Cards Were Huge for Me A lot of what I know about marketing comes from my experience with baseball cards, seeing things like: the rise & fall of …
The Marketing of Occupy Wall Street
A Marketer’s Look at Why The Movement Has Lasted… The “Occupy” movement has legs, much like some past movements. 😉 They are filing for a trademark and there is a viral website banner. In spite of being driven by disgust toward banking fraud & giveaways to too big-to-fail banks, the movement is still being described …
Logos
I think this was the original logo for this site. It has so many layers of hidden messages inside of it… how the words “terrorist” & evil are misused to label anything that challenges our current social hierarchy how we all behave badly sometimes (even the penguins on Antartica) the outsized sense of importance of …
Dad’s American Legion Website
My dad just put together a website for his American Legion. In this search based world lots of people were having trouble finding it. In any case, the site is located here American Legion Post 162 Selmer, Tennessee at the web address selmeramericanlegion.com
Review of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s Search for Meaning is a book that is quite deep and took me a while to read. In fact, I finished a few other books in the middle of this one because I did not want to rush through it and miss stuff. The first 65% of this book consists largely of Viktor’s first …
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Lots of Great Finance Articles
Paul Kedrosky compares financial markets to wildfires, suggesting that an occassional fire might not be so bad When wildfires burn a landscape, it’s not all bad. It cleans out underbrush, helping the next generation of plants and trees emerge. Wildfire is also required by some plants to propagate, like various species of chaparral, whose seed …