Under 100 #2: Jeff Bezos and the Meaning of Life

I'm currently reading 'The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon' by Brad Stone. I do like the convenience of shopping online and Amazon.com has set the standard for other online stores with their innovative ideas. But the whole time I'm reading the book I'm thinking, 'My goodness, how much is enough for this guy?' And his poor employees can't have healthy marriages and family lives and work for Bezos, too. Somebody needs to tell him that there is so much more to life than his Alexanderic domination of the online retail world.

Okay, I'll tell him.

Under 100 #1: Polls

My new job requires me to write descriptions of educational Websites, and I have to keep it over 75 words and under 100 words. I have a much harder time keeping it under 100 rather than trying to get it over 75. This is a good skill for me to learn, since I tend to get wordy. So I'm going to continue the exercise on my blog-- keeping my thoughts about certain topics under a hundred.

Under a Hundred #1: Polls

I think the media uses polls - not to see what the truth is out there, but to gauge how effectively they're influencing people to believe what they want them to believe. Most people base their opinion on what they hear from the media-- right, wrong or biased, so polls are pretty useless except for propaganda purposes. Until we learn how to check the sources to see information from multiple points of view, and especially in its full context, we're all subject to the manipulation of misinformation.