Let’s start the year off with a question I’m sure you’ve heard if you have kids. It goes something like this: Why learn? “Why do I have to learn all this stuff in (math, history, chemistry – pick one) when I’ll never use it anyway?” The easy way out is to remind them that you had to labor through it and it’s the unfortunate lot of children that their play gets interrupted to acquire certain life skills. However, in an age when damn near everything anyone has ever learned is pretty much accessible via a search of some sort, and access to search is immediately available everywhere, why learn indeed? Well, here’s why, and it’s a business lesson as well. Continue reading
Tag Archives: business thinking
It’s A Dessert Topping! It’s A Floor Wax!
I read an article the other morning and it made me think of the old SNL skit for Shimmer Floor Wax. If you don’t know it you can watch the skit by clicking this link (I tried to embed it but good luck getting certain video providers to work nicely with WordPress). 
You might remember it – is new Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? As with the article, it turns out to be both. Continue reading
Filed under digital media
Top Posts Of 2010 #1
As has become my custom, I’m going to repost a few of the more widely read posts from this past year. What’s interesting, at least to me, is if what I wrote at the time is still relevant or is the post just indicative of a bad night’s sleep.
Today’s post was one of the top two in terms of reads. I suspect that in part it has to do with an SEO quirk – people searching for Stripes or Sgt. Hulka – but hopefully it has something to do with the topic as well. As I read it again my feelings about the subject haven’t changed a bit. In fact, as the year went on, they only intensified. Let’s see how you feel. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Consult Keith 