Dave Mongan Says

Being a copywriter, I often watch commercials and wonder “How’d that get corporate approval?”  It just so happens that the “Wow, that’s a low price!” Staples commercial was one of them.  I think their advertising/branding VP must’ve been sleeping with his head on the—get ready for it—“easy” button!  (Yeah, I went there.)

Anyways, this, my friends, is justice.

p.s. - I’d also like to nominate the Wanchai Ferry Panda for creepiest spokesperson.  That voice…

I’ve been using timers for a little while now to help me focus, breaking things into 20-minute increments after reading about it on a self-improvement blog.  Today, someone brought the Pomodoro Technique to my attention, which adds a little structure to my timer/to-do-list routine.  Click on the title to read about it on Wikipedia.

Have a high opinion of your skills?  Think you’ve got the world by the twig n’ berries?  Then perhaps you should read on about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, because you might be totally incompetent and stupid…

This is Mike the Mad Biologist’s response to a poor, down-trodden law professor who recently complained about struggling to survive on ~$400K/yr, and further claims that the newest tax proposal will sink him and the small economy of gardeners, maids and private schools that he and his MD wife selflessly support.  No, you can’t make this up.  Yes, the article’s hilarious.

Tow-surfing’s concierto: The name’s as corny as it gets, but the “Millennium Wave” introduced the world to a new standard for surfing the previously unsurfable.  (Click through for photos.)

“If I place my work in a sealed envelope and mail it to myself, I’m protected.

*BIG NOPE. That just proves you mailed yourself something. A judge will laugh that out of court. If a lawyer recommends you do that, you probably need to find a new lawyer. If you’re going to mail anything, mail in your registration.”

“I know a guy who constantly talks about wanting to start his own business. He’d like to build it around his very own iPhone app. He’s a talented Flash designer who resolved several years ago to teach himself how to develop apps. About 6 months ago, he bought himself a book on how to do that. He hasn’t cracked it open yet. Instead, he spends his weeknights watching Netflix.”  (via @superamit)