This morning, I read a Psychology Today article written by Steven Kotler called “Why We Laugh.” that discussed humor and referred to Alistair Clarke’s article/book on “An Introduction to The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humor.” In it, Mr. Kotler provided a humorous anecdote and said it was
” … a perfect example of what British science [...]
For those of you reading my Twitter and Facebook feeds, you may have noticed that today was filled with a series of bizarre updates revolving around the day in the life of a suburban bear.
It was actually a full day Twitter experiment.
I had looked at Twitter in the past but didn’t see any added benefit [...]
I was talking to a newly friended cousin-in-law today on Facebook. She asked me if there was any chance my husband would start a Facebook account now that he knows she joined.
I jokingly said probably not since that would require him to be social. He would probably only want to join an antisocial networking site.
So [...]
This article by Scott Anthony at Harvard Business Weekly Publishing is a wonderful example of using analogy for communicating about innovation. The analogy used in the article is between the Major League Baseball draft and the way a company manages innovation.
Because the analogy and its use for innovative thinking is presented so well, I [...]
Since I am already on my commercial soapbox, I might as well continue with the discussion of the 20 year advertising war between Mac and PC. This is a Mac driven war and, to give the company credit, it has generated some great commercials. An amazing number of these commercials rely on analogy to [...]