Sean | March 8, 2010
Recently I found myself inspired by waffles, real Belgian zucker waffles. Do you know the difference between real Belgian zucker waffles and American waffles? Yeast dough. Real Belgian zucker waffles use yeast, essentially a brioche dough while Americanized waffles use baking powder. I didn’t really find the waffles themselves to be inspiring. Yes, they were [...]
Sean | February 24, 2010
At lunch I was listening to a podcast of On The Media, an NPR show that analyzes the media. Bob Garfield was inteviewing Don Corrigan, the editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times who had covered a shooting in his hometown. He spoke about receiving phone calls from national press asking for interviews. He [...]
Sean | February 16, 2010
Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn – Telegraph (via Lifehacker)
There is a lot of interesting information being passed in this article about this fascinating study. I feel like I qualify as a generally unlucky person. I also qualify as a tense person. I’m the proverbial cat in a room [...]
Sean | February 8, 2010
It is time to jump into the way back machine and visit an article written in 2003 about pessimism. The Positive Side of Pessimism by Kathleen Mitchell touches upon similar themes I’ve explored here.
Kathleen writes:
When you see the world through a pessimistic lens, it’s usually because you’ve been hurt or discouraged and want [...]
Sean | February 3, 2010
Have you ever wanted something so much it seemed inevitable that you would get it? A recent study conducted by Emily Balcetis and David Dunning and published in a paper called Wishful Seeing analyzed people’s perception in relation to their desires. When estimating distance to something they really want, people general believed the object was [...]
Sean | February 2, 2010
Time, not talent, seems to be the true indicator of expertise.
What I am about to discuss comes to me via a very circuitous route that one can only find on the internet. Lifehacker.com did a write up of Penelope Trunk’s article regarding an article she is attached to from the July/August 2007 issue of [...]
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