On the Hinge

Sunday, 3rd of January 2010 at 06:13:23 PM

During last week, I took the family to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  While the Museum has a lot of interesting work on display, I was particularly interested in one piece which I had read about in a book by Lewis Hyde, entitled Trickster Makes This World.  It is a work by Marcel Duchamp entitled [...]

January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: business growth, innovation, self discovery | Leave a comment

Pepsis not Pepsi

Sunday, 16th of August 2009 at 02:33:03 PM

There is a great TED talk given by Malcolm Gladwell (link here) in which Gladwell talks about the findings of Howard Moskowitz, a psychophysicist who has made a career out of consumer preferences.
In the early 1970’s, Pepsi asked Dr. Moskowitz to determine which percentage of Aspartame it should put into Diet Pepsi to give it [...]

August 16th, 2009 | Category: business growth, innovation | One comment

Three O’Clock Breeze

Monday, 25th of May 2009 at 04:15:46 PM

I’ve spent this Memorial Day opening our place up in Montana.  It’s not a tough job and I get more than a few of hours of time enjoying the lake, learning how successful the resident loons have been in building and maintaining its nest, exploring the logging roads and being continually amazed by the views [...]

May 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: innovation, roadside tables, self discovery | Leave a comment