by Tammy Davis | Oct 20, 2011 | Daily dose
Those who know me also know that I don’t like to wait. I tend to move constantly, doggedly pursuing the “next thing.” Even if that thing isn’t of particularly great importance, I’m hot on its tail just on principle. I am fueled by...
by Tammy Davis | Oct 19, 2011 | Daily dose
We repeatedly underestimate how important a story is to help us make sense of the world. I read this in today’s blog post from Seth Godin. That’s it. That is the absolute core of effective communication. Throwing facts, opinions, statistics, or theories at...
by Tammy Davis | Oct 18, 2011 | Daily dose
Every day, I am more intrigued by the personal details people share without qualm in public fora. The only logic I can apply to it is that they feel so anonymous as one of many in a vast pool of content generators that they won’t really be noticed–or that...
by Tammy Davis | Oct 17, 2011 | Daily dose
You’ve probably heard the adage that the money’s in the razor blades. That is, conventional wisdom tells us that a company will give away a razor–the apparently higher-valued item–so it can lock people into buying its (accessory) razor blades...
by Tammy Davis | Oct 14, 2011 | Daily dose
Certain songs always evoke memories for me. They take me back to time periods, events, people, and even emotions with startling specificity, so much so that recently I realized I had begun to create mental playlists that applied to these memories. I’m not sure...