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This is a complete and utter rave about a very good friend of mine and a book that you should buy.  Is that straightforward enough for you? But first a short story … In about 2009, I needed to integrate wordpress (the softward that this website is built on) with a learning management system.  We [...]

For a long while there – I didn’t like marketing.  Maybe I was brought up that way.  Maybe it’s also just that natural dislike of being “sold”.  I was distrustful of sales people.  “Buyer Beware”. But what was the real issue here?  I mean, really, I did actually ‘need’ stuff in my life.  And I [...]

One of the ‘talked-about’ books of last year was Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Here’s my take on it. Gladwell is well-known for popularizing the research of others – you could say he is a marketer of facts that would otherwise stay hidden in scientific or psychological papers.  The focus of Outliers is that small group [...]

In early 2008 I began to write a book about anxiety.  I mapped it all out on a large white board that I could add ideas to whenever they popped into my head.  It was a big task.  The map got quite out of hand. And then I did what I always do with a [...]