Radical Behavior

I consider myself smart, but I’m no Albert Einstein. I would venture to guess you feel the same way. We want to be on a higher plain of thinking, but for some reason we are stuck in our current set of thoughts. Little goes by day to day to substantially grow our knowledge and we [...]

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Many readers have asked me about the category sudo psychology. I know the proper term should be pseudo psychology, but I chose to use sudo as a geeky nod to the very important Linux/Unix command sudo - this command lets you run other commands as a different user. Since most my posts are around technology, [...]

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I have seen a number of blog posts discussing the different types of blogs. There are link blogs, information blogs, discussion blogs, and many, many more. However, I also run into countless statistics that explain how many blogs are abandoned after a few posts or a short time. This post is to explain why.

It doesn’t [...]

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After taking a test at http://www.personaldna.com/, here are my results:
You are an Attentive Leader.
Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along with your self-assuredness and your willingness to appreciate new things make you a LEADER.
You’re in touch with what is going on around you and adept at remaining down-to-earth and logical.
Although you’re detail-oriented, this [...]

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Kathy Sierra has a great post on some of the psychology that plays into Twitter. I had started to go down a very similar line with my earlier post about the Twitter reinforcer, but she does a much better job (plus she even has a graph).
I think the psychology around Twitter is fascinating. Since it [...]

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Having unexplainably become addicted to Twitter.com, I’ve set out to rationalize understand where the motivation to participate comes from. As continued behavior is usually a result of some kind of reinforcer, the first step is to figure out what I get out of sharing my daily activities.
I initially heard about Twitter from Dave, but saw [...]

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