My Cortex Made Me Buy It
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Given our love affair with high-priced luxury goods, and their association with status and power, itâs possible that weâve come to experience cerebral delight in response to things that promise that cachet.
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When I bought shares of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) last week, my thesis was that the company would continue growing its cash flows substantially, boosting enterprise value and, therefore
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Buying music used to be simple: You coughed up $14 or so for a CD, and as long as you didn&#39;t bootleg it or charge crowds of people to listen to it, the music was yours.
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A paper in The Journal of Consumer Research looks at the effects of self-restraint on subsequent impulse purchases.
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InfoWorld - I&#160;was hungry and it had started to rain when my mobile phone buzzed to tell me I could now buy sugar in a hermetically sealed packet. A picture on my phone&#39;s screen of a goldfish swimming past the cheery new packaging drove the point home.
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A few little changes in behavior can reap big savings.
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Finding the right mix can put more money in your pocket.
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Here's a surprising discovery: Paying taxes is a pleasure for many people.
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Scientists say they have identified an area of the brain that may explain why some people are obsessed with collecting items.
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Boost your mood by stretching your paycheck.
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Take your Virtual Wallet music shopping
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Embracing your inner cheapskate can pay off in more ways than one.
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I'm obviously not the only person with such a fantasy, since Ikea is one of the big retailing success stories of the past 20 years.
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Scientists have uncovered clues about how the brain imitates the actions of others.
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ARM gets slapped for making a pricey buy.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community.
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Proof that there still is more to do. On Saturday I got an email from Sylvia saying that a friend of mine had bought her first iPod. It took me a few minutes to figure out that she was talking about herself. Funny, I had never thought about whether she had an iPod or not, but I have been on her case to get a digital camera. So she brought her iPod over, it's one of the new "fatty" nanos with video. It was so funny to see it through her eyes, and even cooler to read her story. I didn't realize that there was a reason she had never gotten an iPod. Sylvia: Sliding into song. I seek out experiences like this. Stones I can turn over that reveal a rich experience, an eye-opener, a bright horizon that doesn't take much time or effort to achieve.