Read time: 12 mins In most of our interactions, we are probably trying to persuade someone of something. Sometimes it’s a friendly tiff with our friends, sometimes it’s trying to pry a refund out of customer support, sometimes it’s trying to convince a bouncer that your mate’s fine. Whether we’re hoping to sell a particularContinue reading “Smarticles Sales Tips #2”
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Ken Robinson
Read Time: 1 min There is a wonderful story about a 6 year old girl. She was a pain in the neck usually. She was persistently distracted, chit-chatting to the other children, gazing out the window and generally causing trouble. One day however, during a drawing class, she was completely engrossed. Her teacher, fascinated (andContinue reading “Ken Robinson”
Chemistry and Compatibility
Read time: 2 mins Sometimes you can literally feel the power of a connection with another person. It envelopes you, they cloud your mind, send shockwaves through your soul and tingle your fingertips. Throughout the history of story-telling, lust, passion and love have all had this physical component. It’s interesting that the words we useContinue reading “Chemistry and Compatibility”
Smarticles Sales Tips #1
Read Time: 4 mins In most of our interactions, we are probably trying to persuade someone of something. Sometimes it’s a friendly tiff with our friends, sometimes it’s trying to pry a refund out of customer support, or potentially it’s trying to persuade a bouncer that your mate’s fine. Whether we’re hoping to sell aContinue reading “Smarticles Sales Tips #1”
Part 1: The Crypto Revolution
Read Time: 8 mins Buy Dogecoin. Actually don’t, buy Bitcoin. No, don’t do that either. Wait, actually, buy both. Questionable excitement and advice from friends, mixed with attention grabbing headlines have left a lot of people scratching their heads. What is crypto? Why should I care? Like any new thing, the sensible and fact basedContinue reading “Part 1: The Crypto Revolution”
How normal is new?
Read time: 8 mins Imagine you are WordPress. WordPress has 148 million unique visitors per month. This is only slightly fewer than Twitter. They run websites for some of the largest players in the world; companies such as Disney, Playstation and Microsoft. And yet they employ only 1170 staff globally. Those staff iterate 1000 deploymentsContinue reading “How normal is new?”
Make your own Memory Palace
Have you ever noticed that memories are often thought of as physical things that you can lose or find? Sometimes you can’t “place” someone. The name of that thing “escapes” you. Oh wait, you’ve “got” it. There are a number of theories for why this is. The most prominent is the simple fact that memoryContinue reading “Make your own Memory Palace”
About Smarticles
Smarticles has been developed as an antidote to mindless scrolling. It distills interesting, varied, and insightful knowledge gathered by others into short and easy-to-digest pieces. Lifestyle, psychology, history, politics, science, and many other topics are explored. There are guest authors who add different perspectives and voices, all available in short reads, from 2 – 15Continue reading “About Smarticles”
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