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PopCap: “Stolen Valor”: Exposing Bogus Vets
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History,” is a book by B.G. “Jug”…
December 4, 2009
Top 10 Most Expensive vs. Top 10 Most Happy
Ran across this interesting exercise*: Make a list of the 10 things you have purchased that brought you the greatest happiness. Then make a list…
November 9, 2009
The Virtues of Self-Binding
No, I’m not talking about S&M bondage! The self-binding I’m talking about is taking action in your strong moods to make it more difficult to…
November 5, 2009
Don’t Be A Frog
You’ve heard the story of the frog that got boiled alive in a pot it could have escaped from, but failed to take action in…
October 29, 2009
The Dangers of Being Different
Two interesting observations about humans: 1. If you are a few steps in front of the crowd, you are a leader. If you are miles…
October 27, 2009
Don’t Believe Everything You Read… Part 3
Americans devour polls. We just love to know what everybody else is thinking. We give weight and credibility to poll results, especially when they are…
October 21, 2009
Don’t Believe Everything You Read (Part 2)
It amazes me what people will believe. Stock market data going back 200 years? I remember shaking my head in 1994 when Jeremy Siegel came…
October 15, 2009
Capt. Sullenberger, Flight 1549, and Deliberate Calm
How do humans make good decisions under conditions of intense pressure? How did Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III manage to stay cool, calm, and…
September 28, 2009
Criticism: Friend or Foe?
If we choose to regard anything less than praise as an attack, then we cease to hear anything useful a critic may have to say.…
September 24, 2009
Learning to Ring Pavlov’s* Bell Ourselves
Understanding How Social Cues Influence Our Behavior We are always picking up cues from our environment and responding to them, most of the time without…
September 22, 2009
PopCap: The High Price of Ego
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) The City of Portland’s port authority is scheduled to pay $3.5 million to Delta to persuade the airline not to…
September 18, 2009