A lot of personal misery in this society happens as a direct result of people not thinking about thinking. In the business and professional world, thinking about thinking provides a foundation for what’s commonly known as strategic thinking. It’s a rare skill found mostly in the types of people who start companies, [...]
17. November 2010
Why Social Media Will Never Go Away
It’s nearly impossible to intimately understand any technological trend unless you view it in the context of human psychology. Most people don’t get what all the fuss is with social media. It seems superficial and arbitrary. It appears that way to most of us because we tend to focus on the technologies rather than the [...]
8. November 2010
Can A Business Be Shy? (The psychology of personal branding)
The modern expectation that companies should have personalities seems like an anomaly. If you take a long-term view though–say 100 years– it doesn’t seem as odd. In the days before sprawling metropolises and giant corporations, a business’ reputation was much more accessible to the public because of physical proximity. Towns and villages are smaller than [...]
13. September 2010
Self-Control Is Way More Important Than IQ…(and why doubting it gets you in trouble)
Something they never teach you in school is how much more impact self-control has over the outcome of your life than raw intelligence. It sounds like a pretty straightforward thing to say because you’ve probably heard it somewhere before; maybe your grandmother mentioned it in passing or your pastor talked about it in a sermon [...]
30. May 2010
Inside The Mind Of A Music Pirate
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger gave an interesting response to a question about music profits recently. He said:
But I have a take on that – people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies [...]
19. May 2010
The Price Of Music Is Based Mostly On Ideology
The New York Times wants to start charging for content. It’s a strategy that’s worked reasonably well for publications like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. But those publications provide a higher degree of actionable information that appeals to people in the financial industries. My prediction is that the New York Times’ new [...]
10. May 2010
Record Labels Waged War On Human Psychology…And Lost
The major record labels and the RIAA could have averted a PR nightmare and saved themselves millions of dollars by hiring a few behavioral economists instead of lawyers to advise them. The basis of all human economic transactions are psychological. Our animal spirits animate markets. The lawsuits the RIAA waged against consumers several years ago [...]
1. December 2010
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