I've always wanted to attend an outdoor, Easter sunrise service, and given how nice the weather was forecast to be, it seemed like today would be the perfect day to do so. However, we could not find any local Catholic churches that were having such a service, but there was a church, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian, … Continue reading Choosing My Religion*
Dan Ariely, a noted behavioral economist at Duke University, and author of several best selling books, shared a way to break a bad habit in today's Wall Street Journal. A reader had written in, asking Dan how he could break a soda drinking habit. Ariely referred to a study from 2005 by Reuven Dar of … Continue reading Dan Ariely’s Suggestion on How to Break a Bad Habit
Olga Khazan of the The Atlantic recently had an interview with Ulrich Boser, author of Learn Better. Boser shares some tips on what are some effective strategies for learning new material, and what are some ineffective ways. For example, Boser notes how useful it is to explain a new concept to ourselves, quiz oursleves, or teach someone … Continue reading A Better Way to Learn?
Tonight my wife, son, and I played cards, rummy to be specific. As we were playing, it brought back memories of some of the games I used to play as a kid. Since we were playing cards, the first one that came to mind was a game called "knuckles". I don't remember the exact rules, … Continue reading Let’s Get Back to the Games We Played as Kids
In yesterday's post, I shared the results of a study that concluded that "the nature and quality of this sort of connection (Facebook/social media) is no substitute for the real world interaction we need for a healthy life.” Well today there was an article by Vanessa K. Bohns on the Harvard Business Review web site that … Continue reading Another Day, Another Win for Offline Communication
There was an interesting article on the Harvard Business Review web site today, titled "A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel", by Holly B. Shakya and Nicholas A. Christakis. The authors note that thousands of studies have concluded that most human beings thrive when they have strong, positive relationships with … Continue reading A New Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
As I was thinking about to write about today, I came across two articles about leadership. One article, by Margarita Mayo, If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists?, looks at why humble people make the best leaders, but we often fall for the charisma of a narcissistic leader instead. … Continue reading Forget About Leadership, This Is What We Need More Of
My wife and I were fortunate to be guests at a house concert featuring The Clarks last night. I have to admit that neither one of us were familiar with The Clarks before being invited to the concert, but I did a little bit of prep work before the show by watching some videos on … Continue reading A Remarkable House Concert with The Clarks
Today was the semi-annual Villanova School of Business Bartley BriefCase Challenge. The event is held each semester for our junior business majors and involves their analysis of a Harvard Business School case. This past Wednesday, over 200 students were split into 48 teams, each with four or five students. It was at that time that … Continue reading The Bartley BriefCase Challenge
In their recent paper, "Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century,” Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton show that while midlife mortality rates continue to fall among all education classes in most of the rich world, middle-aged non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. with a high school diploma or less have experienced increasing midlife mortality since the … Continue reading The Sad Reality of “Deaths of Despair”
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