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The Experience Economy and the New Rich

Posted Fri, 02/26/2010 - 18:35 by J. Adams

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by Gilmore and Pine has quickly become one of my favorite books, alongside another very popular book, The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris. Both books feature what I believe to be some of the more unique, and applicable, thinking about the world in the new millennium that we find ourselves now a part of in everyday life. Let me describe to you, briefly, why:

Curious Ohio Metrics

Posted Tue, 11/17/2009 - 06:41 by J. Adams

ColumbusUnderground.com recently ran an article about a LibraryJournal.com study which ranked The Columbus Public Library #2 in the nation for overall quality in terms of large library systems.  I have written before about how much I love the Columbus Public Library system, but is my love misplaced?  Curiously, Ohio has a lot of highly ranked library systems, but we fail when it comes to many other literacy and education related metrics: education level, reading proficiency, crime levels, and unemployment percentage.  Why is this?

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