Comments on: In Other Words… http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/07/18/in-other-words/ Fascinating, Inspiring, Rewarding and Engaging kinded spirits. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: paul http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/07/18/in-other-words/#comment-4009 paul Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:48:34 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/in-other-words/#comment-4009 Einstein insisted there was a unified field theory. I think he was wrong. And so do a lot of others, by the way. Application of clearly observable and tested "laws" in the wrong places sometimes simply causes real problems. On the topic of what people want and making money giving it to them, this article from WIRED is interesting because it discusses what amounts to a new economic model. Not sure about that but some of the thinking was refreshing. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html Einstein insisted there was a unified field theory. I think he was wrong. And so do a lot of others, by the way. Application of clearly observable and tested “laws” in the wrong places sometimes simply causes real problems.

On the topic of what people want and making money giving it to them, this article from WIRED is interesting because it discusses what amounts to a new economic model. Not sure about that but some of the thinking was refreshing.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html

]]> By: webecho http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/07/18/in-other-words/#comment-3976 webecho Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:00:46 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/in-other-words/#comment-3976 Nice post. It was great to find the Einstein quote(one of my favourites) mentioned by someone else. It may be irrelevant to marketing but it's a classic. Another: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein Nice post.
It was great to find the Einstein quote(one of my favourites) mentioned by someone else.
It may be irrelevant to marketing but it’s a classic.

Another:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein

]]> By: Anonymous http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/07/18/in-other-words/#comment-3970 Anonymous Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:22:18 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/in-other-words/#comment-3970 The goal is to make money... and you don't do that by being different just to be different... but rather by giving people what thay want but otherwise don't have. “There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” Albert Einstein (great entrepreneurs get what he's saying.) Or put another way... “Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” John Naisbitt The goal is to make money… and you don’t do that by being different just to be different… but rather by giving people what thay want but otherwise don’t have.

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” Albert Einstein (great entrepreneurs get what he’s saying.)

Or put another way…

“Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” John Naisbitt

]]> By: paul http://brainsonfire.com/blog/2006/07/18/in-other-words/#comment-3948 paul Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:42:18 +0000 http://brainsonfire.com/blog/in-other-words/#comment-3948 Now and zen I like to share a few of my favorites, too. I was also an English major, and like The Portable Curmudgeon handy for at-the-ready pith. And vinegar. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452266688/002-7080789-5020016?v=glance&n=283155 "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." "The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure." "Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves." (Above from Eric Hoffer's True Believer, a great, albeit political, handbook for marketers.) And: A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. Never moon a werewolf. Now and zen I like to share a few of my favorites, too. I was also an English major, and like The Portable Curmudgeon handy for at-the-ready pith. And vinegar.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452266688/002-7080789-5020016?v=glance&n=283155

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”

“The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.”

“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”

(Above from Eric Hoffer’s True Believer, a great, albeit political, handbook for marketers.)

And:

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Never moon a werewolf.

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