Seth’s World View

Just finished reading, Positioning, by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Really interesting book on marketing. Marketing doesn’t take place in a vacuum. In college, I studied many different communications theories, including general semantics, who have as one of their creeds: meanings are in people. Once people grab onto an assumption, it is usually hard to [...]

As of now, these are the 7 most painful movies made in my lifetime, never to be seen again, time lost forever:
1. Freddie Got Fingered
This was worse than bad. I felt unclean after watching it. You have to see it to understand, but do that, and you’ll be scared for life. Don’t. You’ve been warned [...]

I like Science Fiction, a lot, always have. I lived a year without the Sci-Fi channel, it was difficult (okay, I can live without it, but it’s nice to have). I like how science fiction explores reality, yes, reality, and often does a better job than so-called ‘real life’ shows (we won’t even get into [...]

Gail Sheehy illuminated the rewards of risk-taking in her book Pathfinders. Sheehy began her research looking for the secrets of truly contented people. She wondered what made these people feel such as sense of well-being. Sheehy learned that “people of high well-being” shared just a few traits, and this was one:
They all had taken an [...]

I started to breath air at about 8 am EST thirty-two years ago. Birthdays used to be nice times of celebration (gifts), now they are primarily reflective. It’s also a starting and ending point. Perhaps I’ll reflect more later. For now, I’ll just enjoy my parm bagel and white cholocate mocha (with fern leaf latte [...]

I’m a Bills fan in a land of Broncos. Colorado’s definitely my home. Pennsylvania was my home first though, so:
Here we go Steelers, here we go! Clap clap