Monthly Archives: December 2010

Memory

60 Minutes

I don’t know if you watched the 60 minutes story last night on endless memory.  You can see the first part of the story here and there’s a link to the second part on the player.  In a nutshell, the story shows 5 folks – including a famous actress – who have complete recall of every moment of their lives since they were kids.  You pick a date, they tell you what happened.  A lot of people think it’s some kind of parlor trick but the research clearly demonstrates that it’s real.  I thought it was fascinating and I’d love to hear your thoughts.  Of course, as I was watching, I had a business thought which I’d like to share with you as well. Continue reading

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Oxymoronic Cocktails

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Let’s end the week with some drinks.  It’s Friday and that’s sort of food-related, right?  I’ve written before about the “Eat This Not That” series which took a foray into the world of cocktails the other day.  Turns out there was a business point to be made along with all the health talk.  The newsletter featured four of the world’s healthiest cocktails since, as they put it, if you’re going for the buzz, you might as well get some benefits right?  Not so much. Continue reading

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10 Reasons Why I Blog

I get asked sometimes why I write this stuff 5 days a week.  It’s probably a couple of thousand words and several hours’ time each week and I’m not going to lie and say it’s easy because sometimes it’s painfully hard.  I do have my reasons, however, and I thought I’d share 10 of them with you today.  These are in no particular order and some overlap (being concise is not one of my strengths) but they came surprisingly easily when I made the list.  Here we go. Continue reading

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