My memory was a sieve. I could remember nothing. Dates, names, appointments, faces – everything escaped me. I said to my wife, “Catherine, I shall never make a successful politician, for I cannot remember, and that is a prime necessity of politicians.” My wife told me I must train my memory. So, when I came home that night, I sat down and spent fifteen minutes...

Concerned that he lacked a native facility for remembering  names and appointments, and believing that “a politician who sees a man once should remember him forever,” Weed consciously trained his memory. He spent fifteen minutes every night telling his wife, Catherine, everything that had happened to him that day, everyone he had met and the exact words...

If his devotion were determined by his lack of “faith in ceremonials and forms,” or by his failure “to observe the Sabbath very scrupulously,” Swett added, “he would fall far short of the standard.” However, if he were judged “by the higher rule of purity of conduct, of honesty of motive, of unyielding fidelity to the right,” or by his powerful belief...

I was reading The Long Tail by and I ran across a quote he uses when discussing the Pro-Am movement (professional and amateur). Karl Marx was perhaps the original prophet of the Pro-Am economy. As Demos notes, “In The German Ideology, written between 1845 and 1847, Marx maintained that labor-forced, unspontaneous and waged work-would be superseded by...

It’s been a long time since I last wrote in my journal. Since July actually. I had an idea of what I would like to write about, which I hope means I post more frequently. I would like to write about what I learn that makes a company run well (or not as may be the case). I have started a new job within Sony as the Senior Web Analyst and Online Marketing...

http://www.brandweek.com/bw/magazine/current/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003467674 I really get tired of reading articles about RFID tags. It’s like the people making the technology are so convinced in the benefits that they ignore the fact that nobody wants them. I think if you want to do some really cool things you can do it with current bar codes and...