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The excerpt below is from the introduction to The excerpt below is from The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam.
The story begins when a coworker asked Dan to cover for him as a presenter at a conference in England. After an overnight flight, Dan was asked en route to the conference to run his PowerPoint by the British team leader.
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That's right folks, it's the official release date of The Back of the Napkin. As you can see in Dan's picture below (click to enlarge), it took a lot to get to this point. We here at 8cr are big fans of Dan Roam and his book (see the previous post for more on that).
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Predictably Irrational >> BusinessWeek | "Why You Do the Crazy Things You Do"
"Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely, is an entertaining tour of the many ways people act against their best interests, drawing on Ariely's own ingeniously designed experiments.
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"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations? "
- from Alice in Wonderland
Well, the following books from February's top 25 may or may not contain pictures, or even conversations in them. .
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Friday was opening day at SXSW, the famous Austin music/film/media/interactive festival that's been running for the past two decades. If you're not familiar with it, here's an introduction.
Most of us here are missing the fun.
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