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Book Report: Success and Luck
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioural economics, Branko Milanovic, Charlie Munger, David Brooks, E.B. White, economics, Italo Calvino, luck, meritocracy, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert H. Frank, success, Success and Luck, taxes, The Improbability Principle, Tom Gilovich, wealth gap
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Marketing to the Rescue!
“A good map tells a multitude of little white lies; it suppresses truth to help the user sees what needs to be seen.” – Mark Monmonier, in How to Lie with Maps The other day I wrote about a marketing…
Tagged with: branding, outside-the-box, strategy, success, tactics
Posted in Advertising, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Advertising, Everything, Marketing
Chris Hadfield’s advice
In a recent interview with CBC Radio, Commander Chris Hadfield gave his three secrets for becoming an astronaut: Keep your body in shape and eat well Challenge yourself with education, and push yourself to learn things you barely expect to…
Tagged with: circle of control, decision-making, excellence, expertise, space, success
Posted in Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Everything, Math and Science
Fun with advertising: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be shocked, you’ll be confused
Now that Christmas is out of the way for another year, we can get back to what’s really important: advertising! It might not have come across yet, but I take quite a passionate interest in advertising: the good, the bad,…
Tagged with: branding, evil, failure, mistakes, prankvertising, success
Posted in Advertising, Marketing
Posted in Advertising, Marketing
The Running Man
A few years ago, I hated running. Now I’ve changed my tune: I grudgingly respect its existence, and occasionally hang out with it. When I was a tallish skinny youth, someone made the mistake of telling me, “You’d be a…
Tagged with: excellence, failure, goals, lessons, respect, running, success
Posted in Everything, Sports
Posted in Everything, Sports
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