Month: November 2010

  • #the5 for the week ending November 4, 2010

    I tweet out #the5 regularly on weekday mornings. Folks have asked in the past if they could somehow get these tweets in another fashion, but every Twitter/Wordpress plugin I’ve seen makes a mangled, annoying mess of processing the Twitterstream, so until there’s a better option, I’ll just throw out this digest. If you’d like to…

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  • What your dinner can teach you about marketing methods

    Salty. Sour. Sweet. Bitter. Flavorful. What’s similar about all of these? They’re all powerful tastes we are biologically wired to respond to. We love foods with these different flavors. A seared steak with cracked peppercorns and salt. A warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream on the side. A plate of buttery salmon sushi with…

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  • Vote!

    Regardless of what you think of (party) or (candidate) or (incumbent), regardless of how badly broken you think (political body) is or how corrupt (government process) is, go vote. Not sure who to vote for? Vote for people who support the things you support. If you like things more or less how they are now, the…

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  • Five #30better things you can do

    Five #30better things you can do Over the weekend, I suggested that you start out doing one thing a day that will make a change in your life for the better over the next 30 days. Pick one thing and do it consistently over the next 30 days. So that you get an idea of…

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