Friends of Dave #293: seven varieties of stupidity
Apologies....
Double whammy this week, Friends. Busy week which ended with me feeling a bit under the weather....
So gotta call an audible and take a break on the preamble this week. That means for those of you who tune in for the intro, I got nothing new, profound, funny or useful to say in this space.
No rants, pontifications, stories about my kids, etc. Sorry.....
I guess if this leaves a bit of emptiness in your day, you could click >>HERE<< and go back to like issue number 20 or something and read an old intro from 2017...
Or enjoy one of the articles below -- they are all good this week, I promise!
Be sure to tune in again though -- I should be back in rare form a week from now. Until then....enjoy some downtime!
XOXO
Dave
Think on This...
Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.
To expect growth is to believe in future technologies. To expect very long-term growth is to believe in science fiction. Interesting and very quick read.
For Your Day Job...
8 Signs a New VP Won't Work Out. And 3 Things Not to Worry So Much About.
Hiring a VP that doesn’t work out is tough. Some good tips on figuring out if you made the wrong move and what to do about it.
What Makes a Great Sales Pitch Not Salsey?
The sales profession is not among the most admired. There even is a term, salesy, to describe a person or an approach to selling in an unaware manner. The fact is this: every kind of pitch is "salesy." Here's some really useful tips on how to make them seem less so.
Retention is the foundation for growth Rising acquisition costs have made retaining customers every bit as important as attracting new ones. So how do you make customers stick around for longer?
Your Weekly Dose of Randomness...
Ranked: The 20 Countries With the Fastest Declining Populations — www.visualcapitalist.com Population decline is a rising issue for many countries in Eastern Europe, as well as outliers like Japan and Cuba.
This cheeseburger explains why you're paying so much for food these days American consumers are seeing food prices rise at the fastest rate in decades. Supply chain snarls, labor shortages and climate challenges (plus the conflict in Ukraine) share the blame.
What did Einstein eat? Inside the diet of the famed physicist From mushrooms to canned beans, Einstein had quite the interesting diet. It remains unclear what, if any, influence his diet had on his ability to understand the deepest levels of physics.
Ready or not, the Glassholes are coming back Is the world finally prepared for hands-free cameras? Every major tech company is working on computer glasses. None of them really want to go first.
And The Last Word....
Seven Varieties of Stupidity — ianleslie.substack.com
“There are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Stupidity is often an act of will: people make themselves stupid, when it suits them. That humans are able to do this at all is, in its way, quite impressive. Here is a look at seven distinct ways people makes themselves stupid.
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