The Next Age is the Neuro Age

Zack Lynch has a book coming out in July in which he describes what he calls the next epoch or revolution in human development. We’ve lived thru the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age to get to the curent Information Age. Lynch claims the follow-on will be the Neuro Revolution, which will transform the way [...]

Waving Hands Helps Learning

A recent study reported by Scientific American discusses the concept of Embodied Cognition. Essentially, the researchers concluded that people make hand gestures while talking not solely for the purpose of their audience. In many instances, gesturing while talking helps the speaker perform cognitive tasks more efficiently. This is yet another example of how little we [...]

Your Gut is Thinking Too

I finished Jonah Lehrer’s book, How We Decide, last week. In it, Lehrer describes his view on, well, how we decide things. It’s basically the same concept that was presented in Gerd Gigerenzer’s Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. In fact, some of the same research is used as examples [...]

Everyone Has the Entrepreneur’s Work Schedule Now

A recent article at CNN introduced me to the term “weisure.” It’s the blending of work and leisure time that is spreading across America. I found the article interesting because that’s been the way I’ve lived ever since I started my computer outsourcing company, Port-to-Port Consulting, back in 1991. It’s how every small business owner [...]

Is Time Real?

I stopped wearing a watch more than a decade ago. I was in my office, deep in some project or other when I suddenly glanced up to see what time it was. Without having to do a Linda Blair kind of head turn, I was able to see three clocks plus there was one on [...]

I’m Done with Malcolm Gladwell

My son knew that I had read and enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink. He also knew that I had read The Tipping Point. As a result, when he became stuck for a good Christmas gift idea, he figured he couldn’t go wrong with a copy of Outliers. Before he gave it to me I had [...]

The Things We Take for Granted

I got out of the shower yesterday morning and heard noises downstairs. Susie was still sleeping and I didn’t figure there was any way that Christopher would be out of bed this early. The noise wasn’t the sound of intruders though, so I dressed and went downstairs to see what was going on. There, in [...]