Corporate Identity

Though my line of work has me handling a lot of different business cards, a curious difference between those from Americans and Germans had escaped my notice until a colleague pointed it out to me: taking a pile sitting on my desk, he demonstrated that while all American business cards were the standard 3.5” × [...]

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Barack, Aristotle, Plato & Me (Pt.3)

After struggling with his faith in rhetoric in two blog posts, Jeff calls for Aristotle to provide sweet reconciliation. Just then, Aristotle descends from the heavenly firmament—not too fast, not too slowly, but at just the right speed.
Aristotle: Jeff, you called for me?
Jeff: Why yes, Aristotle, I did.
Aristotle: What for, my son?
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Barack, Aristotle, Plato & Me (Pt.2)

In the previous post, I presented two simplified and contrasting views on the worth of rhetoric by Plato and Aristotle. On one side, Plato argued that rhetoric is used to render the rhetorician “more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge,” while on the other side, Aristotle argued that because “things that are [...]

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Barack, Aristotle, Plato & Me (Pt.1)

I’ve been pondering Obamamania in the past few weeks, which has in turn caused me to begin mulling over the contrasting views of Aristotle and Plato on the worth of rhetoric, something that has interested me since I took a class on the subject in college.
Definitions of rhetoric abound, but the definition I was taught [...]

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Missing The Point

Lost in my thoughts today on a train, I recalled how several members of the fairer sex have independently told me that my biggest problem with the ladies is that I overthink things with them.
I subsequently spent the rest of the ride racking my brain for a solution.

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