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Tag Archives: business
Spam Index, Shopping Catalog & Co. – An Introduction to Anti-Social Rationality
Do you want to be the #1 top result on Google? No, thank you. To many people this reaction might seem odd. Let me backtrack a little. Yesterday I alerted yet another person of the fact that I can see … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, anti-social, anti-social rationality, business, catalog, cataloging, email, illiteracy, illiterate, index, information, information retrieval, literacy, literate, marketing, offer, offers, online advertising, online marketing, rational media, search, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, spam, spammer, spammers, spamming, target, target market, targeting, web advertising, web marketing
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Rewarding Life May Be Counter-Productive When Rewards Undermine Habits
A new friend of mine recently asked “how do you translate ‘rewarding’ into German?” I found it was fascinating that this was difficult to answer. We had been talking (and continue to talk) about how language and culture are closely … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged business, community, culture, Deutsch, economic, economics, engagement, Englisch, English, German, habit, habits, language, life, Ludwig Wittgenstein, practice, reward, rewarding, rewards, theory, translate, translation, work
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People as Content: Virtual Content vs. “In Real Life” (IRL) Content
Whenever we look through a kaleidoscope and make even the smallest of adjustments, the new picture that results can become very different from the one we were just looking at a moment ago (this is a favorite metaphor my mother … Continue reading → Continue reading
Topics as Locations: Physical Location vs. Virtual Location
There are many people who get very excited about local search… — and so do I; but only a very few think about location in a way that could be described as even just remotely similar to the way I … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged business, community, language, languages, local, local search, location, locations, physical, products, search, services, topic, topics, topoi, topos, virtual, vocabulary, Wisdom of the Language, word, words
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Loving Heartstrings: The Search for Meaning is a Quest for Love
Over the holidays, I have been mildly entertained by people discussing what are the best bang-for-your-buck opportunities for consumption… — this or that party, celebration, offer, whatever. I do not claim to be entirely innocent of the “quest for deals” … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged business, commerce, commercial, commercialization, communication, community, consume, consumer, consumers, consumption, deal, deals, engage, engagement, life, love, meaning, natural, nature, participation, Pink Floyd, quest, search, Speak to me, together, togetherness, us and them
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The Future of Advertising is Extinction
I know many people in the advertising industry often debate about whether brand advertising or direct response advertising will prevail. I have a very different opinion: Advertising will fail altogether. Note that I am not saying that there will no … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, business, business ethics, communication, communications, ethics, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy, literate, retard media
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Life Mashups: Business + Love
Yesterday’s acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook (and the subsequent reporting about the 19 billion dollar deal) has underscored something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Most people have 2 distinctly separated compartments in which they live out their … Continue reading →
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Tagged business, career, goal, goals, irrational, irrationality, life, love, passion, passionate, passions, rational, rationality
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Listening to some Dire Straits, I figure I might as well go down to the water line… This year has been tremendous! This year has been stupendous!! This year has been a blast and a half!!! I won’t recount everything, … Continue reading →
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Tagged advice, advisor, advisors, bad, business, coach, coaches, coaching, ethics, execution, executive, executives, follow, follower, followers, following, goal, goals, good, leader, leaders, leadership, life, people, podcast, podcasts, purpose, purposes, support, Ted Ernst Sarvata, tool, tools, Wisdom of the Language
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