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You might have noticed the 2014 FIFA World Cup is being held these days in Brazil. As I work for a company thay happens to sell products and as I am often in touch with some of our customers, I have no choice but to keep on track about the topics that our customers might want to talk about (in a lot of sales situations, small talk is quite an essential part of relation building). So I sacrifice loads of my free time these days watching those soccer matches, out of respect for our customers (which reminds me: shouldn’t I try to report these hours as working hours?).
As there are 2 more matches starting in less than an hour, I will consequently have to keep this blogpost short. I just want to point out a wonder cure that most people in the medical sector somehow have not discovered yet Continue reading
Quote of the day #20
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
sometimes incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain, but actually paraphrasing a French statement from Blaise Pascal (in Lettres Provinciales, 1657)
Quote of the day #19
“Don’t accept a no from someone who doesn’t have the authority to give a yes.”
I was not able to attribute this quote to any particular person, but I heard it in a the radio show The Change Agent’s Dilemma from Enclaria LLC (available as podcast on iTunes)
7 Ways to irritate by using numbers in blogpost headlines
Surely you’ve come across them while surfing the internet, in your social media feeds, in magazines or newspapers (for the younger readers: texts and images printed with ink on paper – was widely used in the pre-internet era): articles or blogposts that want to grab your attention by using some kind of number in the headline.
To point out just how irritating the abundance of the use of numbers has become by now, I’ve assembled some of the practices that cause irritation in a convenient list.
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Quote of the day #18
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
Quote of the day #17
“History is written by the victors.”
Winston Churchill
If there is indeed a doctor in the house, should you consult her/him?
Obviously: yes. Circumstances where the question “Is there a doctor in the house?” is appropriate suggest a situation characterized by the unexpected appearance, in the presence of a restricted group of people, of events or symptoms that are clearly hinting towards an medical emergency. Of course a medically trained professional is then by far the best option for succesfully solving the problem (and hopefully save a life, or reassure the crowd that is was a false alert, or reprimand anyone whose sense of humor is sick enough to include faking a medical emergency).
The real question I want to raise is this: “Should you consult a physician for all health-related problems – even (and especially) those without events or symptons that are clearly hinting towards an medical emergency?” Continue reading
Quote of the day #16
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th century American essayist and poet)
E-books are the next big thing. Definitely maybe. Some time.
The sarcastic undertone of the title might be a bit weird for US readers of this blogpost, as e-books have quite a substantial market share in the US for a while already, as you can see in the statistic below.
Statistic provided by Statista
The adoption of e-books in Europe is no where near that level – it’s stuck at something like 1 or 2% in a lot of European countries, Continue reading
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