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Tag Archives: Kurt Vonnegut
You don’t need an MBA, you need OCD
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. – Kurt Vonnegut It amazes me that so many organizations don’t understand branding. They think branding is their logo, their TV ads, … Continue reading
Art, people and personal brands
People are like art in a number of ways. I’m currently thinking of one way in particular. (Please forgive the pseudo-egghead moment and indulge me.) A work of art exists in three states simultaneously. What the artist perceives it to … Continue reading
Kurt Vonnegut on books
From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books: At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the … Continue reading
After 30 years: Kurt Vonnegut and Slapstick
This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event — public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel … Continue reading
Impressions – who exactly are you?
In the introduction to his novel Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut says something to the effect of, “You are what you pretend to be. So you better pretend to be something good.” I was thinking about this as I read Creating … Continue reading