The Participation Company team is composed of penultimate professionals, who also happen to be very human beings. Not everything that we think is interesting and important enough to share with you can be classified into the other, more professional categories.
Well before Eurythmics wrote and sang those immortal words, “Sweet dreams are made of cheese,” I’ve been interested in popular music lyrics and how they reflect the mood of the time. Every era seems to lean into the emotional state of people experiencing their time from the “...
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We’re way over-surveyed and it drives me a little nuts. I don’t want to “provide my customer experience to help them serve me better” every time I buy a pack of gum at 7-11. Online reviews especially have gone overboard and I ignore ’em . . . unless I have ...
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If you’re wondering what to do with all your spare time over the holidays, I strongly endorse reading “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America” by Heather Cox Richardson, an academic historian and professor at Boston College. It’s a current New York Times best seller and makes ...
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This might sound weird, but I’ve always liked washing dishes by hand. I worked as a dishwasher and busboy at a local fancy restaurant in high school and I liked the dishwashing part more than bussing. I know that machines are more water efficient and I use mine all the ...
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… because I have a pretty cool vinyl collection. So, before he actually saw it in action, I found myself trying to explain what this thing was and how it worked to one of my grandkids. And that then led to me trying to explain tape – 8-tracks, cassettes, and ...
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I encounter teenage girls fairly frequently (that sounds a lot creepier than I intended) and I have found – not universally, but quite often – that they have a rather unusual speaking affectation. I’ve often found this particular sound coming out of them a little weird, but sort of dismissed ...
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Blokes and birds who deal with anyone who’s lost the plot would be bloody well served by considering the following before starting their next chinwag....
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We’ve talked a lot about the rule of threes in the past; it pops up in literature, communication, survival, photography – oodles of places. When you are trying to get a point across, you are best served and most successful when you think in terms of three. Don’t believe me? ...
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May is typically a month when people make serious plans about what they’re going to do for fun the rest of this year. Wanna hear something really pathetic? Less than half of workers in the U.S. actually use all of their vacation days. And I’ll admit that for a long ...
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Recognizing that much of the past year has been tough for many of us, it’s time to turn to one of the funniest human beings on the planet (at least I think so) for as much comic relief as we can handle. Welcome to Dave Barry’s Christmas Gift Guide.
Wendy, ...
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