I get spam from alot of different sources. Each one is a pain in the ass. Why can’t government figure out how to make this manageable?
Snail Mail. Every day, my mailbox is full of coupons and solicitations from charities and political groups. I get magazines and newsletters that we never read. We just throw [...]
A great friend and mentor, Avinash Kaushik, presented at Adchemy last week. Avinash is an analytics evangelist and industry visionary. He has two books on Analytics and speaks frequently. I worked with Avinash a few years ago at Intuit where we had a very prolific and fruitful working relationship. The whole company turned out [...]
The Jets won Superbowl III on January 12, 1969, almost exactly 41 years ago. It was just before I was born against the Colts and Johny Unitas. It was the first time they called it the Super Bowl. Joe Namath was the hero of the show, jogging off the field in the iconic moment with his finger wagging in [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks with the new car. I am still trying to get over the idea in my head that this car is too fancy for me.
It’s a nice car and I like driving it. It was a good deal (I think) and we can afford it. Still, I just wish I [...]
My personal philosophy is that at the end of one’s life, you have approximately an equal division of good and bad things that have happened to you. This means that when something bad happens, I feel better knowing that a good thing is due to me in the future. My balance sheet will turn out [...]
I am not a “car person”. I see people all the time comparing this horsepower and that alloy rims and the other sunroof. I wish I could converse with them, but I just don’t care enough about cars to get into it. I appreciate a nice car as much as the next guy, but there [...]
Since 1995, I have only read non-fiction. I am not suggesting that everyone do this.
The non-fiction books I read fall into two categories: Biography/History and Science/Theory. Some bio/history books are fantastic, like Robert Caro’s books about Lyndon Johnson or Robert Moses. He is my favorite author with a ridiculously high Pulitzer prize average per book. [...]
I just finished Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational. It was a very good read and I recommend it to anyone looking to understand how people think. The author is a behavior economist and scientist. Basically, that means he does tests to see how people act in the real world.
For example: How much to people cheat? [...]
Recently, I have seen a spike in the traffic to this blog. Google Analytics is a great free tool to monitor traffic. Just seeing the increasein traffic made me feel warm inside. Like the way a stage actor feels when they get a round of applause. It was a near doubling in overall traffic. I [...]
In a Muppet Mood, I guess. Still this is brilliant. I love Animal (about a minute in).
Go Muppets!
Started in 1996, Glen Lipka has been been randomly publishing about User Experience, Technology, Human Psychology and other subjects.