West London pedlars of the early twentieth century look a bit like a forerunner to the hotdesk, pyjama laptoppers of today. They had no “office”. They simply strode the roads, shouting touting for business. The classic English example is the rag & bone man. “Any old iron”. Even birthing one of

A telly presenter calling himself Blowfish [https://www.theblowfish.co.uk/presenter](left) was loosely promoting Marine Awareness Week [https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-marine-week-2017/] , along with his new book, on vacuous pr-driven weekend daytime sofas. Except this involved a couple of fish tanks with threatened corals and fish. With

[https://www.instagram.com/insta.bios/] Downtime wondering through links in the meme of ‘best, funny and creative instagram bios’, I scrolled acrossinsta.bios [https://www.instagram.com/insta.bios/]. > I never finish anythi Which reminded me of the classic; > Two Rules for being Super-Successful: 1. Never reveal all you

Even if you were unaware of its precise psychological label, you’ll have probably come across this technique. It runs that you’re more likely to gain compliance – particularly for a pocket-change fumble of cash – when you ask for an unusual amount. The classic being the beggar who, rather than

[https://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1379/brain-science-the-forgetting-curvethe-dirty-secret-of-corporate-training] This rather unglamorous drop-off is a Forgetting Curve [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve]. Long ago I came across the seed of these kinds of data, the Ebbinghaus effect [http://salespodder.com/training-isnt-permament/]. It creates a decay theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/

Let’s consult wikipedia. What could possibly go wrong? > “the medium is the message is an often-debated phrase believed to mean that the medium chosen to relay a message is just as important (if not more so) than the message itself” On what would have been the 106th birthday of