I had a good evening tonight. Went to a party at Heather’s place and watched the premiere of this season’s Amazing Race.
Don’t know if I told you, but I applied to be on the next season with my friend George. We never heard back. It’s too bad, we’d have had great fun, up to the point where frustrations grew so high one of us took the other’s life in a bloody, creative and highly ironic post-modern way. It would have made for great television.
Actually, if you work for CBS and you’re reading this blog, let me be clear: that was a joke and that George and I would be great competitors, we’d play hard and fair, and if necessary, one or the other of us would wear a blonde wig and fake breasts.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)