I can tell you this: It's a jungle out there. I don't mean the real world in which most of us inhabit; that world is pretty tame. I'm talking about the blogosphere. I've been blogging for about eight months now and, up until recently, it was a pretty unexciting experience. I would post a post [...]
Negative thinking that hurts confidence can become a bad habit. Bad confidence habits are just like bad technical habits; the more you practice them, the more ingrained they become and the better you get at being negative. And that negativity is what will come out in competition. Also like a bad technical habit, negative thinking [...]
Please be prepared. I'm going to go on a bit of rant now. I just can't hold it in any longer. I see parents doing this constantly and it's killing me because they know not what they do and they are actually hurting their children's development. What am I referring to? It's praise, that's what [...]
With the challenges we all now face in the global economy, many people feel pressure to work harder and put in longer hours at work. That commitment may enable them to keep their jobs or maintain a certain lifestyles, but at what cost? In my consulting practice, I have seen a rise in stress levels, [...]
Has computer and communication technology allowed us to connect more deeply with life? Or, as we become more connected with this technology, are we becoming more disconnected from life? As someone who has made his life's work the study of human behavior and who is fascinated by the nexus of humanity and computer and communication [...]
Disclaimer: I am an AT&T customer with a data plan. I?ll do my best not to let this ?conflict of interest? interfere with my opinions expressed below. You have to hand it to AT&T; they?ve got chutzpah! That, by the way, is not a formal psychiatric term. I could have said that AT&T is delusional, [...]
Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we [...]
Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you've heard that Twitter was the victim of a cyberattack causing the popular social media to shut down for two hours last week. Well, if you live in the Land of Twitter you would have thought that it was 9/11 all over again. CNN.com quoted one Twitter [...]
Talk about hitting a man when he's down, literally and figuratively. Did you read the New York Times article on Friday about the surge in attacks on the homeless, many by so-called thrill offenders? There's even a genre of on line entertainment called "bum fight" videos that get posted on the Internet. In other words, [...]
Dear Bill, I know you've been retired from Microsoft's day-to-day operations for about a year now and Steve B. is running the show, but you are still Chairman of the Board and the public identity of Microsoft. That's why I'm writing you, Bill, because Microsoft is still your company and it needs you. Think modified [...]