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Is it Interconnectedness or Selfish Altruism?

October 13, 2008

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Adrian Ho at Zeus Jones has raised some interesting questions in the past. Lately, he has posited a hypothesis for this decade’s “theme.”
His excellent post today on interconnectedness as the motivator for this decade makes a lot of sense. As he points out, there are countless examples of the ways in which we [...]

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Here’s to a great 08

January 2, 2008

There’s no question in my mind.
2008 will be much better than 2007.
Has to be.
The girls and I just put together our resolutions for the coming year. It is quite an exercise to explain the concept of “resolutions” to a four-year-old. The nice thing is that going through this process tonight has reminded me of the [...]

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Packaging as a Service

December 20, 2007

I’m a bit of a fan of Zeus Jones. They seem to have a constant flow of interesting ideas centered on the idea that good marketing should provide much more than just a message — it should provide a service if it is to be truly relevant and successful in the long-term.
One of the nice [...]

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Of Ants and Humans

November 19, 2007

Carl Zimmer reported in the New York Times over the weekend that scientists have a better idea as to why ants and other swarming animals can work so efficiently. Turns out, according to Iain Couzin, a mathematical biologist at Princeton and Oxford, that there are a series of trails ants leave and rules they follow [...]

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What’s in a name?

August 1, 2007

PSFK has a post this morning regarding the conference in Los Angeles. At this conference, the group has agreed to drop the term “marketing” from the agenda. The reason the article cites is that the PSFK team and attendees believe marketing is too limiting a descriptor. The conference is about ideas and trends.
It brings up [...]

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