Posted by Ted Hopton on March 17, 2008
Seth Godin’s blog should be on everyone’s blog reader who cares about marketing. Here’s a great post, in it’s entirety, because it is so short (many of his posts are this short, to-the-point and thought-provoking):
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Gotta love it. Cuts right through the usual thinking and offers new insight that’s so obvious I wonder why I didn’t think of it before I read it.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on March 17, 2008
I’m not a fisherman, nor even particularly fond of eating fish, but I have always been fascinated by the amazing migratory life of salmon. They start out in fresh water rivers, migrate downstream to the ocean, adapt to salt water, grow amazingly large, and then return to the same river where they started, swim an exhausting journey upstream to spawn, and then die after accomplishing their life’s mission. Surely there are lessons, inspiration and metaphors for human beings in this animal’s tale.
So this NYT headline caught my eye: “Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace.” Here’s the synopsis:
The Chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry.
With the collapse of the fall Chinook, the questions have begun. Is our aggressive, meddling species to blame? Or were there natural causes at work? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Ted Hopton on March 17, 2008
I’ve needed glasses since about second grade, and in fifth grade I finally gave in and started wearing them all the time. Seeing things clearly trumped vanity. But as soon as I got old enough to get a job and earn the money to pay for a set of contact lenses, I did so.
Ever since, I have gone back and forth between contact lenses and wearing glasses. Neither is a great solution, especially now that my eyes are betraying me when it comes to reading. That means my contact lenses that correct my near-sightedness make it hard for me to read a restaurant menu. So far I have refused to pack a pair of reading glasses to put on as a second pair of corrective lenses when I wear my contacts. It’s just too much, but I don’t know how long I can keep guessing about what I am ordering to eat.
So, Lasik surgery has long intrigued me as a way to literally cut these issues out of my life. I would love to wake up in the morning and see the world clearly (and not realize that I have left my contacts in overnight by mistake). But I’m rather risk-averse when it comes to my health. I have this fear that Lasik has not been around long enough for us to truly know what the long-term effects of the surgey might be.
But more people I know have gotten it, and my fear has been feeling more paranoid than realistic. Why not go ahead and do this, I’m thinking, and enjoy the great change it would make in my life?
Then I read this article by Abby Ellin in the NYT, and my fear re-doubled its strength: “Lasik Surgery: When the Fine Print Applies to You.” Read the rest of this entry »
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