Category Archives: Asides

Harvard Business Review: The Value of Happiness

The Jan-Feb double-issue of Harvard Business Review has an excellent series of articles about happiness in business. I was pleasantly surprised when I grabbed it at the airport; getting an issue of HBR is one of my self-awarded travel perks, … Continue reading

Aside posted Tue Feb.21.2012 | Leave a comment | #
San Diego Bound

I’m going to be in San Diego for business, and will hopefully have some free time over weekend from 2/11 to 2/13. The last time I was in this part of the country, I think, was in the late 1990s … Continue reading

Aside posted Tue Feb.07.2012 | 3 Comments | #
You Loved the Manual. Now Buy the Product!

Over on Kevin Kelley’s Cool Tools, I came across a post about how he downloads the manual before purchasing the product as a kind of preemptive RTFM. It makes tons of sense. How many times have you purchased what you … Continue reading

Aside posted Sat Feb.04.2012 | 4 Comments | #
Notice: Broken RSS Feed

Thanks to Elaine and Jim for pointing out that my RSS feed seems to have stopped functioning. I’m using Feedburner, an RSS Feed manager that allows me to see the number of subscribers, and it seems stuck no matter what … Continue reading

Aside posted Wed Jan.25.2012 | 5 Comments | #
Mail Bag for January 10, 2012

One resolution I am planning to make thiscoming February 2nd is to become more efficient in processing the various email alerts I get about various products. Here’s a few of them, plus a bit of my own news: Tom Novak … Continue reading

Aside posted Tue Jan.10.2012 | 1 Comment | #
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