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Let’s face it. It’s always all about us. The world we see is a world where we see ourselves, often only ourselves, what we want and what we do. And our self-centeredness is fine and probably necessary as some darwinian self-selected survival instinct. But there are limitations. When we focus only on ourselves, we sometimes [...] I’ve been on a couple of conference calls this week both from airports and with individuals who are in airports. Given this age of constant travel, I suppose that’s not too unusual. What also is not unusual is the intrusive drone of the airport loudspeaker into those conference calls. Outside of the times when a [...] For the past six months I’ve had a cd by Townes Van Zandt recycling through my car stereo. I have a few other cds as well, most of which I enjoy but also most of which my wife is tired of hearing over and over. But I keep come back to Townes who has a [...] 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 [...] This is the gift-giving season. And, as we know, it is better to give than to receive. If you’re like me, you’ve bought and exchanged gifts (and perhaps had some of those gifts exchanged at the store afterwards) and, maybe, even now Aunt Minnie is wearing one of the sweaters you bought her and nephew [...] Thanksgiving Sunday is hardly the day to talk about keeping hungry. If you’re like me, you’ve had three days of turkey, stuffing, potatoes and pies, plus all the weird side dishes that your mother served and that you hated growing up but now can’t do without. You’re probably sitting in front of a TV, watching [...] We learn to share in day one of kindergarten (if not long before). Of course, what we learn to “share” are things, like toys. Then we learn to share friends. We learn to share time. When we fall in love we learn to share our dreams and desires. Sharing is a basic social contruct — [...] I’m on a green tea kick and this weekend I was researching tea pots, specifically one called a Yixing tea pot. The Yixing is a clay pot and, according to the description, because it is clay, it is porous, which means that the surface area is many times larger than a traditional teapot. This provides, [...] 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 [...] |
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