Heels clacking marble Gaggle of teenie-boppers Rush through train station
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Seeing through Silence and Inaction
Posted on July 30, 2008 by danspira
Listen to what is said and what not said. Observe what is done and what is not done. While it is instructive to listen and observe what people say and do with intention, Freud’s gift was to sensitize us to what people say and do unintentionally. Yet, the powerful Active Listener and Observer will also [...]
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Learning the Forgetting Curve
Posted on July 24, 2008 by danspira
WIRED magazine had a great article by Gary Wolf a while back, that I can’t seem to get out of my head : Want to Remember Everything You’ve Ever Learned? Surrender to this Algorithm The article chronicles the hermetic exploits of one Piotr Wozniak, creator of SuperMemo. SuperMemo is a computer program that uses concepts [...]
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Xeno’s Paradox Redux : XM/Sirius Approval One Vote Away
Posted on July 16, 2008 by danspira
Wow, four X’s in a post title. Ok, so I’ve been following the Sirius-XM satellite radio merger story and read this today: XM/Sirius Approval One Vote Away http://www.smartmoney.com/breaking-news/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20080711-000744-1650 This is just another example of Xeno’s Paradox in business, i.e., the idea that if you move halfway closer to something with each step, theoretically you’ll get [...]
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Double Feature: Effective Leadership Teams | ImageKind Purchased by CafePress
Posted on July 15, 2008 by danspira
Just to mix things up a bit, this post is a two-for-the-price-of-one Double Feature: One part management development thought du jour, one part online business news punditry (with copious Wikipedia links throughout). Part One: Just the other day, I heard an interview with Professor Michael A. Roberto of Bryant University, formerly of Harvard Business School, who [...]
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Funk Interlude — Hollywood Swinging
Posted on July 9, 2008 by danspira
The Meme Menagie is on vacation this week. See y’all next week.
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July 2.5 : The Canadian-American Dual Citizen’s Anthem
Posted on July 2, 2008 by danspira
On this noon midpoint between July 1st and July 4th, in the transnationalist spirit of the last post, in the spirit of making enemies on both sides of the border, and in the spirit of mangling all that is sacred and good, the Meme Menagerie is slightly-embarassed-but-nevertheless-compelled to present a hitherto unreleased composition from many [...]
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July 1 : Canada Day in America : Could “Primero de Julio” be the next “Cinco de Mayo?”
Posted on July 1, 2008 by danspira
Today is the first of July, aka Canada Day, the day that Canadians celebrate their national holiday. Although Canada and the U.S. share many similar holidays around similar times of year, the slight differences are important and telling. The U.S. celebrates its national holiday just three days later, on the fourth of July — but [...]
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