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Interestingly, California's debt is seen by investors as riskier than Kazakhstan's, according to Bloomberg News. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/californias-debt-no...

I absolutely love the term "webless trolls".

true, but Measure for Measure was first printed in 1623...

Great example. It also makes me wonder: If every moment of your work is so intense... does that change your perception of time ? A student once wrote that if he had one hour to live he would spend it in a boring classroom, because it would feel like eternity. Joking aside, the perception of time is an interesting subject...

True. Antoine de Saint-Exupery said that "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" Obviously I am not implying anything about my post here (which is far from perfect -_-), but I do like simplicity as a principle...

feedback is always welcome, even negative. Apologies for the confusion, although it was intentional. Let me explain: Yes, you are right, 1,440 is indeed the number of minutes in a day which is not a widely known fact (outside this website that it). People always use what they know (i.e. hours) to describe their lives and not surprisingly get to similar, predictable results. Proving this point, you expected the post to be on a familiar subject so you quickly rejected it because it wasn't. But that is the main premise of the post: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And to be true to the subject, I deliberately made the post short because I didn't want readers to invest more than one minute.(7 or 11 sentences to quote the other reader). Thanks for the comments!

Apologies for the confusion, although it was intentional. Let me explain: Yes, you are right, 1,440 is indeed the number of minutes in a day which is not a widely known fact (outside this website that it). People always use what they know (i.e. hours) to describe their lives and not surprisingly get to similar, predictable results. Proving this point, you expected the post to be on a familiar subject so you quickly rejected it because it wasn't. But that is the main premise of the post: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And to be true to the subject, I deliberately made the post short because I didn't want readers to invest more than one minute.(7 or 11 sentences to quote the other reader). Thanks for the comments!

Good points. To quote Benjamin Franklin "Tell me and I Forget, Teach me and I Learn, Involve Me and I Remember. But then again my set of problems is slightly different than yours. I work in advertising and often times we sell rough ideas, stories and concepts. Clients in this case also ask for data to validate these ideas. So, I do believe that there is a role (and an expectation) for powerpoint in corporate America. But I also feel that we can do a better job communicating in these situations, thus the post...

Interesting comment. But then again saying "terrible" is easy. On the other hand, how do YOU present ideas, concepts and information to your clients and audience? I am open to suggestions.

so true. But still, I feel that with a big enough sample you can make some assumptions about what people feel is emerging. And I trust that the audience of this blog are more likely to have an interesting point of view...