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Pride or Chutzpah? – The Daily PPILL #86

Pride or Chutzpah? – The Daily PPILL #86

We all celebrate pride. When there is a true reason to feel proud, you should walk around with your head high, with nothing to feel ashamed of. Sometimes is difficult. If you have been humiliated, wronged, and bullied, it takes an extra dose of righteousness to keep...
Leading through life with joy – The Daily PPILL #85

Leading through life with joy – The Daily PPILL #85

Europeans do things differently. We know that. The simplest things. How they hold their silverware, the clothes they wear, they even drink alcohol unapologetically. But there is one thing that they do differently that just fascinates me: the way they teach kids to...
Search engine making you dumb? – The Daily PPILL #84

Search engine making you dumb? – The Daily PPILL #84

Since the appearance of the search engine a great deal has changed about how we do things. I can still remember when memorizing something at hearth, was not just something for convenience, to have the most frequently needed information “in the cache”, and available...
Pricing: art or science? – The Daily PPILL #82

Pricing: art or science? – The Daily PPILL #82

Price. It is everywhere. We invented money, credit, and we also invented the price tag. Granted, price is not just that number on a tag, you can specify price in a barter equivalent, but in modern times, it has been reduced to an abstract number. But, How is it set?...
Is it a restaurant or a cooking class? – The Daily PPILL #81

Is it a restaurant or a cooking class? – The Daily PPILL #81

Most companies offer products or services that have a number of well-known, set features. They are a “finished good” and we gladly pay a premium for this work. Take for example a Restaurant. We would we pay three, four, or even 40 times as much for a meal that we...