Adult ADD Strengths

Phishing is unfortunately getting more common, and more advanced. According to Wikipedia, Phishing

is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Your bank will never ask you for your password by email. Take this Phishing Quiz to see how good you are at detecting the webpage and email scams, it’s not as easy as you might think.

Via Susan at Divine Parenting

Know your Neurobiology! Most adults probably spend more time learning about how their car works than learning how their brain does. Which one is more important? Especially when ADD is a neurobiological condition. It’s like having diabetes and not knowing how your blood sugar works.

Bruno Dubuc has created a great flash site on how the brain works in flash format for Mcgill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Want to know where the pathways of the top 3 neurotransmitters associated with ADD are?

It’s very cool and well laid out. When you click on individual sections you can get further detail by choosing beginner intermediate or advanced on the top left of the page and 5 levels of organization social, psychological, neurological, cellular or molecular on the top right.

Alan S. Blinder, Princeton economist, former federal reserve board vice president and advisor to democratic presidential canidates was a hard core free trader for decades and has starting doubting the benefits of globalization. A Wall Street Journal article states that

…now he is saying loudly that a new industrial revolution — communication technology that allows services to be delivered electronically from afar — will put as many as 40 million American jobs at risk of being shipped out of the country in the next decade or two. That’s more than double the total of workers employed in manufacturing today. The job insecurity those workers face today is “only the tip of a very big iceberg,” Mr. Blinder says.

It’s all about the brand baby. All about positioning. Getting sent to jail for more than a night in the drunk tank tarnishes some brands. So Paris Hilton had to polish her’s a bit with a branding repair exercise on the king of the softball questions and Mr reluctant on followups to scripted answers that sound fishy, Larry King. Larry admit’s he’s not a gotcha type guy and he’s good at the soft news personal story type interviews. But too many Paris Hilton type interviews and he runs the risk of being the designated interviewer for celebrity reputation white wash jobs.