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“Everything we hear is an opinion,
not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective,
not the truth.”
—
Marcus Aurelius
Excellence is a habit
Six keys to being excellent. We are what we repeatedly do. If you want to be really good at something, it's going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. Here is some more on self-control and...
Personal social media strategies
Harvard Business Review has an interesting article on personal social media strategies. The first example in the article really drives it home. Even if you don't have a social media strategy yourself, or are not active on social media, others that talk to you are, and...
“Bosses Overestimate Their Managing Skills” .. really?
Good advice: "It doesn't matter what industry you're in. People have blind spots about where they're weak," says Scott Erker, a senior vice president at DDI, which conducted the survey in September. link at WSJ.
Gamedesign… it’s come a long way since Pong and PacMan.
Amazing how the gaming industry has evolved over the past years. Below is a part of the making of the new Call of Duty Black Ops by Treyarch.
good travel tip…
"How to be safe in a foreign country" has some good tips on things to do prior and during your trips to any country you're not familiar with. Do your research before you go there (protests in Bangkok perhaps?), make copies of your documents, take important contact...
Reading: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell) Gladwell describes three separate agents of change: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. Each of these has extraordinary power to move the Tipping Point....
Passwords and more
I came across an interesting post over at Lifehacker on passwords. It would seem that a lot of people still use passwords they can remember easily, and as such, easily guessable by others too, not to mention easily cracked by brute force attacks. Click here for the...
Reading: How to Think
How to Think (Stephen Reid) In a fast and complex world, we can’t work any harder so we have to work smarter. The ability to think clearly, quickly and creatively is crucial, yet many of us don’t realise how limited our thinking is. Intriguing book on how to ‘think’...
World statistics
I don't really believe their "updated in real time" claim, but still, interesting yet scary figures are to be found on the World statistics site (link here).
So true: relationships between the advertiser and the consumer
From BringTheLoveBack, found through the Muse blog. Hm, I think this is also what the relationship between the customer and the agency is like sometimes.