AWNM reader David Henderson writes: “Dear Daniel, After reading your book A WHOLE NEW MIND, I was inspired to start a company. It is named Chillcasting and allows people to download audio recordings to help them manage stress effectively. If you have a moment, please visit us at www.chillcasting.com.” Well, I had a moment. Chillcasting […]
Nearly half of U.S. businesses are based in the home, reports the Census Bureau.
Georgia Tech, already a pioneer in a whole-brained approach to engineering education (see The World is Flat), is teaching poetry to young engineers. Tech’s forward-thinking President Wayne Clough, himself a civil engineer, says: “The pursuit of science and technology is just as creative a process as poetry and the arts. Both require intensely creative people
More evidence that the economy’s statistical apparatus isn’t keeping up with the economy itself. A new study out of Massachusetts finds that free agents in that state are “undercounted by the hundreds of thousands.” According to economic geographer Laurence Goss, 17 percent of Massachusetts’s labor force are sole proprietors. But — amazingly — they’re not
Iconoculture discovers yet another Conceptual Age job: The high concept baby sitter. Sitters in the City, a New York venture, supplies actors, painters, and dancers to care for your kid.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher has an interesting TED talk available for free online. Her subject is mostly the differences among sexual, romantic, and attachment love. But she spends part of her time talking about the gender differences in the human brain. Here’s an excerpt from her talk, which has enormous relevance for the thinking styles described
In another sign of the democratization of design, The Cooper-Hewitt is sponsoring the People’s Design Award. Cast your vote today.
Business Week has an eye-popping cover story that analyzes what’s happened in the U.S. labor market over the past five years. The punchline: Since 2001, the health care sector (which includes pharma and health insurance companies) has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector has added . . . uh . .
Richard Florida offers a very interesting analysis in this month’s Atlantic showing a (somewhat alarming) demographic realignment in America’s metro areas — a “geographic sorting of people by economic potential” that he dubs “the means migration.” In short, the most “highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid Americans” are clustering in a small number of
We’re still having trouble getting email on danpink.com. (See Sept. 9 entry below) But we’ve managed to salvage a bunch of email from recent days — and we should have the problem licked pretty soon. That said, if you’ve sent me an email in the last couple of days and haven’t heard back, please send
