As I was clearing some of my old stuff I hit on a box full of old watches, mainly inherited from my family. One of them got my attention and I took it to a repair shop. “It is functioning,” the shop owner said. “We just have to change its glass and band. It is […]
A standard piano with 81 keys has a width of about 150 cm. Hence it is possible for composers to write songs for 2 people sitting next to each other. With their 4 hands they can play 20 notes at the same time. Other musical instruments don’t allow for such “comfortable” performance conditions, let alone […]
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. If you are a business owner on the road to find a partner, there will be […]
Nicole Pesce is an American pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger, who entertains audiences with her unique blend of virtuosity and humor. Nicole’s YouTube “Happy Birthday Variations” video currently has over four million views. The variations are based on the styles of big masters like Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Bach and Mozart. They are all great but […]
Assume you are watching a basketball game. Team A is losing 78 to 76 and it is the last 2 seconds in the game. At that point one player of team A, seeing the clock ticking its last seconds, throws the ball in the direction of team B’s basket. And it goes in as a […]
vocabulary.com describes Law of Similarity as “a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit.” In other words: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a […]
From an article published in NYTimes by David Gelles on August 17th, 2014: “When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company, its chief executive, Larry Page, asks whether the acquisition passes the toothbrush test: Is it something you will use once or twice a day, and […]
My client asked somewhat incredulously: “It will take seven hours?” Generally, this is the first question my clients ask when I inform them about the duration of the first meeting they will have with a potential acquirer who will be visiting their company. “Yes,” I say “Moreover, if you also include dinner you will be […]
It is generally assumed that women talk more than men. ☺ The psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, who published their findings in the July 2007 issue of “Science”, say that women and men both use an average of 16,000 words each day. It is also generally assumed that films let women […]
“I would never mix my business life with my personal life!” I’m sure some of you share this view. What I don’t know is the percentage of those of us that in reality mix these two, irrespective of what we believe. ☺ The separation of couples from each other is one of the important incidents […]
