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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
Don’t laugh. Vitale Caturano in Boston has one.
