Watch and Learn, Kid.

A blog about slowing down and taking notice.

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Marketing

Zaaz Interactive Agency

W5 Insight

Automotive Shopping Behavior Study

Bad reviews improve conversion rates by 67%

Zeus Jones

You Can Motivate People, Or You Can Just Make It Easier

A Simple Approach to Account Planning

Culture

The Chrysanthemum and The Sword

You Never Marry The Right Person 

Or, as Tolkien put it:

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Tech

Google favors Google+ in search results over Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Learn to Code with Codecademy

Food / Beverage

The entirely defensible fad for limited edition, barrel-aged gin

Meatpaper

Malts.com

Current Events

Atlanta is redistricting and a bunch of the neighborhood parents are in an uproar about how it might impact schools and where their kids end up.

Does God Care Whether Tim Tebow Wins?

Why Liberals Shouldn’t Dis Tim Tebow (or Jesus)