“So this is the landscape of the Sleeper Curve. Games that force us to probe and telescope. Television shows that require the mind to fill in the blanks, or exercise its emotional intelligence. Software that makes us sit forward, not…
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Book Report: Everything Bad Is Good For You
Tagged with: Everything Bad Is Good For You, John F. Kennedy, Marshall McLuhan, Richard Nixon, Sleeper Curve, Steven Johnson, The Simpsons
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…about Disrupted
Hey – so the other day I read Dan Lyons‘ Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. I’d heard about it because of the whole kerfuffle, and then a colleague read it and brought it to the office, so I give…
Tagged with: Adam McKay, bozo explosion, Dan Lyons, Disrupted, Dunning-Kruger effect, HubSpot, Michael Lewis, Mugatu, Silicon Valley, The Simpsons, Zoolander
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Book Report: Elements of Wit
“There you are, in a big sales meeting. The client makes a weak joke in your direction and the boss looks your way. Say something. Say anything. Well, not just anything – you need something clever but innocuous, smart enough to…
Tagged with: aphorisms, Benjamin Errett, Boris Johnson, brevity, Cary Grant, charm, chutzpah, compassion, confidence, conversation, cultural literacy, Donald Trump, Dorothy Parker, Dunning-Kruger effect, Elements of Wit, flow, Flynn Effect, Frinkiac, George Clooney, humour, hustle, illusory superiority, intuition, Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, Mark Twain, Nora Ephron, Oscar Levant, Oscar Wilde, refreshment, resilience, righteousness, romance, Seinfeld, Shakespeare, Steve Martin, Strunk and White, The Simpsons, Winston Churchill, wit
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