Posts Tagged ‘Cool Blogs’

Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things

Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:57 No Comments

Ignoring ‘Misses’ and highlighting ‘Hits’ without proportions… interesting talk. Link to TED | Talks | Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things (video)

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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:23 No Comments

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central belief of western societies: that freedom of choice leads to personal happiness. In Schwartz’s estimation, all that choice is making us miserable. We set unreasonably high expectations, question our choices before we even make them, and blame our failures entirely on ourselves. His relatable examples, from consumer [...]

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When opportunity knocks the door….values often shut blind.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 23:55 2 Comments

Read a thought provoking post on Seth’s Blog about the tacit honor system in our society,  the notion of 99% of people are good and only 1% of the people are actually bad. So if you treat everybody as if they belong to that 1%, you might loose the 99%. Just about everything in civilization [...]

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How to make a million dollars? A penny from 100 Million or $100 from 10,000

Monday, July 9, 2007 7:45 2 Comments

Seth Godin on ‘How to make a million’ says tyring to make a penny from hundred million almost never works. Instead try to make a dollar from million people. One popular method is to make a dollar in profit from each of a million people. Or a penny from a hundred million. This is the [...]

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Apple Product Evolution

Monday, July 9, 2007 7:20 No Comments

Excellent visual showing almost all Apple products. I did not know most products. I haven’t even heard of most of them except a very few.   Evolution of Apple’s Products | created by Edwin Tofslie   A visual I created to show the evolution of most all Apple products created over the past 30 years.This was created to [...]

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