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Halloween of 1973. I was 4 years old. I remember this. I am with our neighbor. She took me to a halloween party at, I think, her school. I remember having a lot of fun at this party. I have a very clear memory of a trick someone did involving invisible ink. They wrote something…
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I am reading a fascinating book called, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini. One of the chapters is about Social Proof. This is when groups of people decide to do something – or decide not to do something – because the group is doing it or not doing it. One of the examples…
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SR prize drawing. Making kids happy.
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From Powell’s Book Blog: But, writing, it always begins poorly. It can only begin poorly. As I describe in the book, it’s more like trying to reverse engineer something edible from rotten food than assembling a meal out of palatable ingredients. It goes on the page poorly, and then you have to live with the…
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Another post idea randomly generated by Big Huge Thesaurus. I present: the exciting story of my walk to work this morning… As per my usual routine, I put on my earphones and fired up Spotify so that I could be fortified with tunes on my walk. I usually choose something from my “Starred” playlist to…
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