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What Book Publishers Can Learn From Luxury Brands

Here’s an interesting argument from the Globe & Mail that book publishers hurt themselves right out of the gate by allowing retailers to set the terms (discounts, merchandising, etc.) by which their books – even the high-demand latest releases – are sold. It goes on to say that publishers should act like luxury good brands […]

¶ Posted 09 November 2014 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics

Myers-Briggs and Other Personality Tests as Junk Science

I’ve posted about the Myers-Briggs test on this blog before and I’ve referenced it occasionally when talking about my own personality or the personality of others. But the more I read about Myers-Briggs and other similar personality tests, the more I’ve come around to thinking of them like I think of handwriting analysis – a fun parlour […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2014 § Humour § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, philosophy

An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak

¶ Posted 26 October 2014 § Library § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, book, philosophy

What Do Garden Fresh Carrots Have To Do With Working In A Public Library?

As part of the interview process for a Public Service Manager position at RPL, candidates are asked to do a presentation on “The Future of Public Libraries” to some of the librarians already working in the organization. I was able to attend one such presentation today and since we had a few minutes after the […]

¶ Posted 22 October 2014 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sad § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health, parents

“Do You Believe In God?” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Good stuff…

¶ Posted 15 October 2014 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, philosophy

Music Monday – “Running through the graveyard/We laughed my friends and I/We swore we’d be together/Until the day we died/Until the day we died”

“Innocent When You Dream” – Tom Waits

¶ Posted 06 October 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – How Would Steve Jobs Sell You A Pen?

“Sell me this pen.” An old business school cliche, recently brought to attention again in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street” gets a fictional Steve Jobs spin.

¶ Posted 19 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: apple, cool, economics, language

The “Boring” Trait Google Looks For In All Its Leaders

Not sure if it’s a predictable answer but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it. 😉

¶ Posted 17 September 2014 § Jobs ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, google, orgdevl

A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]