Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde with Sandra Blakeslee
I happened to be logged into my Google account one day when I received a surprise invitation to join a video hangout with Mike Rohde, who was testing the service to see what it did. Mike, who is part of the secret cabal of super-nice, super-competent Minnesotans Midwesterners I keep bumping into, has gained quite [...]
I’ve often wondered how business people think differently than other people. To date, I’m most familiar with the world view of engineers and artists. As an engineer, I find I’m drawn to the minutia sequencing action to produce results. As an artist, I’m drawn to the interplay of my senses and thoughts with other people’s [...]
I’m a reluctant business person. While I’ve had the notion that I could somehow parlay my interest in making/writing into some kind of sustainable lifestyle, it’s only recently that I’ve even started to think about this in business terms. It’s perhaps not that surprising since I’m a preacher’s kid, and I grew up in an [...]
