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    Attention, TV viewers

    Published January 11th, 2009

    This just in from the Department of Self-Promotion . . . If you’re in or around Hartford, CT, on Monday January 12, please tune in to Connecticut Public Television (Channel 24) at 8pm for the debut of television special based on A Whole New Mind. The program will air during pledge week on CPTV — and then on other public [...]

    Who’s the Robert Parker of Asia?

    Published October 22nd, 2008

    It’s this guy — Shizuku Kanzaki, a character in a popular Japanese manga series.The NY Times picks up on the amazing Japanese phenomenon of Kami no Shizuku – a manga series that is reshaping the Asian wine market.The Drops of God, as the title roughly translates in English, tells the story of a reluctant wine maven. And it’s become [...]

    Sorry for the interruption

    Published June 22nd, 2008

    Over at Marci Alboher’s always excellent blog, author Maggie Jackson shares some interesting thoughts about the modern workplace’s culture of distractions.   Among other findings, Jackson reports that:• “The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task.”  • “Interruptions and the requisite recovery time now consume [...]

    Obama’s one-word equity

    Published June 10th, 2008

    I was thinking about the business implications of the Obama juggernaut the other day when a friend said to me, “I can’t think of the word ‘hope’ any more without thinking of the guy.’”  Something about that comment stuck in my head.Then this afternoon, I was going through some piles of clippings and ran across [...]

    Ho-ho-ha-ha-ha

    Published April 29th, 2008

    John Cleese discovers laughter yoga and visits the same laughter club that I visited in Mumbai and wrote about in AWNM.  Fun viewing.     (HT: BoingBoing)

    An art gallery inside an accounting firm?

    Published April 26th, 2008

    Don’t laugh.  Vitale Caturano in Boston has one.

    Lots of trash talk

    Published March 8th, 2008

    The only good news at Reagan National Airport

    Published March 8th, 2008

    D.C. garbage

    Published March 6th, 2008

    Light posting — mea culpa

    Published March 5th, 2008
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