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Values and Branding: Are You For Real?

May 13th, 2010 · → 5 Comments

Tapped is a movie about water. The kind we drink in bottles that we throw away. Water that in many cases is free, municipal tap water that Coke and Pepsi repackage at a huge profit. Yup, Coke and Pepsi sell you water you can get for free from a faucet. We feel good drinking bottled [...]

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Stock Picks and Fake Smiles

September 17th, 2009 · → 5 Comments

What if I told you there’s a way to pick stocks that is so reliable you’ll do better than the experts? But in order for it to work, you’d have to give up something:  Your access to information. Ignorance is power. In 2000, an investment magazine held a stock picking contest.  More than 10,000 people [...]

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Cult of Personality

July 30th, 2009 · → 13 Comments

I went to yoga the other night. The room was filled with so many acolytes their yoga mats were about a micron apart. It was like boarding the subway in NYC during rush hour and getting an intimate view of your neighbor’s armpit. Only in yoga it’s more exciting because the people are half naked and their sweat flies on you when they flail. That class lasted about 45 seconds for me. I had to leave. I don’t do flailing.

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Fish Can Count and Monkeys Can Subtract

April 16th, 2009 · → 7 Comments

Bookmark this because it has the solution to the banking crisis. I’ve just found out that fish can count and monkeys can subtract.

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