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- Upsetting, Connecting, Leading
  May 20, 2009 | 9:51 am
  Speaking at TED on the marketing of an idea, Seth Godin proposed three questions to verify change:
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  3. Who are you leading?
  
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- What’s your phone number again?
  April 30, 2009 | 2:03 pm
  Our memory system, says cognitive psychologist Gary Marcus, is “context-dependent rather than location-addressable,” which is how computers “remember.” We recall major events in our lives, but “have to hear a phone number five to 10 times before [we] can repeat it.” “Worse,” Marcus points out, “our memories are vulnerable to contamination and distortion. Lawyers can readily fool us.”
  
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- Magicology: illusions or reality
  April 23, 2009 | 4:24 pm
  A mind-twisting article in Wired’s May issue quotes neurological researcher Stephen Macknik, “Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world.” Adds Teller of Penn & Teller fame, “Giving the trick away [gives] nothing away because you still couldn’t grasp it.” Hmm. The magic of Bernie Madoff, now imprisoned CEOs, and defamed televangelists?
  
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