Monthly Archives: April 2011

Where Are You Now…

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

Well if you don’t know just ask your “smart phone” as it does along with keeping a handy record of every step you make, is this surprising to you?  Well it shouldn’t as way back in 1999; I had cut … Continue reading →

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Time Management…

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

What got me thinking about “time” management was a recent survey questionnaire sent on Linked In asking what my daily time management technique was and how effective it worked for me.  Stepping back for a moment, the concept of “time … Continue reading →

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You’re Lying To Yourself…

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

We all do it as we are all humans, so we lie to ourselves all the time as when  we tell ourselves something which needs to be done now, can wait for another day, or that we “really” didn’t hurt … Continue reading →

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Error Blindness…

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

Recently caught a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk about “being  wrong” by Kathryn Schulz a self proclaimed “wrongologist” thus one would think she should know what she was talking about.  It was during this talk, Miss Schulz’s brought up the … Continue reading →

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Gerrymandering for a Modern Time…

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

Maybe it was the word “gerrymandering”, much like “periwinkle” being fun to say as it rolls off the tongue as it was around the 4th grade in elementary school  where I learned of its magic.  Wait a minute there, “magic” … Continue reading →

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Equilibrium….

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

As this is one of the most amazing and over looked words we will find in the English language as it ranks right up there with death and taxes when we speak of the life’s axioms however it somehow doesn’t manage the … Continue reading →

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The Price of Cars are Going Up, What The…

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

Watching the evening news today the top story was a major Detroit auto manufacture had announced it was raising the price of its cars which got me to thinking as hey I just purchased a new iPad for the same … Continue reading →

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How Much is Too Much…

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

One the early adages we all learn as a kid is “you can have too much of a good thing” and while in our youth with perceived invincibility it’s hard for us to truly internalize this until we start acquiring … Continue reading →

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Whorfian Hypothesis…

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

A new discussion in the Economist titled “A debate on language and thought ” caught my attention as a while back I had been waxing in a prior post titled “Multi-Linguistic Thinking” with a focus on my multilingual colleagues ability to call … Continue reading →

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Long on Chutzpah, who needs Friends…

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

A recent review by the Economist of the newly released book “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World” by William Cohan grabbed my attention as it was titled “Long on chutzpah, short on friends” which sparked … Continue reading →

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