Monthly Archives, November 2007

We hereby define a new term used to describe our "strategy" in life. Are you a giver, a taker, a lover, a fighter, macho guy, sensitive guy, Madonna, slut, etc - it's all really your GPS. If evolutionary psychologists are right - and they do seem to be gaining credibility and attention these days - then our personalities are largely endowed to us by Mother Nature during the process of evolution. In fact, your personality is simply an adaptation created and managed to help you navigate your environment and successfully proliferate your genes. Notice we talk about a gene proliferation strategy...

Radiohead just released an album. Yes, we're all a-tingle and anytime Radiohead does anything, it's a big deal. But what's notable about this release is that it's being posted on the internet for free download and fans pay what they want to pay. The theory goes like this: like it a lot = pay a lot, like it not = pay nothing. I haven't heard the album, but I'm expecting them to do pretty well. What a cool place we're at in time where products and services are paid for via donations. And that's what this amounts to - some communist business model where you pay what you feel like paying. No hard...