Alistair Beattie

Strategic Questions : Intro

Strategic Questions : Intro.

So many things are called strategic these days, you end up with nested/layered/referential structures. There's nearly always a way to ladder up into abstraction and ladder down into detail. Here is a view from the top of the ladder.

Effects and Consequence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recollection
Salience (neuroscience) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Why advertising does and doesn't work

Your Dogs Emotions - Things Every Dog Owner Should Know.

Pet dogs have an endearing tendency to imitate their owner’s emotional reactions, which may not weigh much in an argument, but it certainly offers much in moral support. They are no more individual in expressing their emotions than we are. Dogs approach and seek contact with objects and beings that inspire friendly feelings, and avoid or shy away from those they fear. Often a dog will pretend not to see a person or animal he dislikes.

Steal authentically

Comfort with meaninglessness

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Comfort with meaninglessness the key to good programmers - Boing Boing.
Sometimes there is no correct answer.

The best answer is no answer.

No visible means of support

Strategies are inevitably born of imperfect information.
Knowing which aspects of this should most worry you is part of the art.
When heuristics fail, it's time to jump.

pwn3d

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue. — Thomas L. Friedman

Interest is the learning emotion

08 CDir, Interest.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Br&

Brands are the sum of all contacts: direct, mediated, and social.
They are models, or patterns, in the minds of individual consumers
We use them as noise-reducing, time-saving, mental shortcuts.
Therefore they have always been "owned" and "co-created".
They are enablers of emotional "blink" responses to a complicated world.

Approximations, best-guesses, gut feel, instinct.
Inspirations and intimations, promises and contracts.

See a Pattern on Wall Street? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com.

"The researchers found that when people were primed to feel out of control, they were more likely to see patterns where none exist."

Ubiquitous Bandwidth

In Seoul broadband penetration has hit 107%

The Death of the Korean DVD Industry: A Sign of Things to Come in the U.S.? « NewTeeVee.