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Tad Waddington, Ph.D. is the author of Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work, a book that has won five prestigious awards. See full bio

January 19, 2009, Behavioral Economics

Comments on "That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?"

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

By Tad Waddington, Ph.D. on January 19, 2009 in Smarts

Two-finger typing, an on-coming train, men's nipples, and what it all tells you about scientific theory. Read More

Interesting posts, but all from your book?

Submitted by awa on January 19, 2009 - 5:45pm.

Don't delete this and please respond to your readers as to why this post and others are all excerpted from your book. You have many interesting ideas, but they are all from a book we can purchase. I hope to soon read some more of your ideas that relate to events and issues in the here-and-now. That is what a blog is about, not a series of reprints from a published work.

Thank you for addressing this.

cerebral blog

Submitted by Terry on January 19, 2009 - 10:39pm.

awa wrote:

"Don't delete this and please respond to your
readers as to why this post and others are all
excerpted from your book. You have many interesting
ideas, but they are all from a book we can purchase.
I hope to soon read some more of your ideas that
relate to events and issues in the here-and-now.
That is what a blog is about, not a series of
reprints from a published work."

My understanding is that these blogs are
supposed to be about Psychology. There's no
rule about everything having to be about
the "events and issues in the here-and-now".

Also awa, I think if you spent more time reading
blogs (I've probably spend too much) you would notice
that blogs commonly quote from, and excerpt from
published pieces (even their own!).

To Tad Waddington:

I hope you keep up what you are doing, I've very
much enjoyed your blog, it's probably the most
cerebral blog I've ever read.

Terry, you're dead wrong

Submitted by awa on January 20, 2009 - 4:23am.

Cerebral-- yes, I agree. But blogs are not about book promotion; they are essentially online diaries about news, events, etc.

If you read more blog entries outside of Psychology Today [which is becoming a bin for book and self-promotion], you would be aware of this. Take a day and read the Huff Post and the NY Times.

awa wrote: "Cerebral-- yes,

Submitted by Terry on January 20, 2009 - 10:50pm.

awa wrote:

"Cerebral-- yes, I agree. But blogs are not about
book promotion; they are essentially online diaries
about news, events, etc."

"If you read more blog entries outside of Psychology
Today [which is becoming a bin for book and self-promotion],
you would be aware of this. Take a day and read the Huff Post
and the NY Times."

The Huff Post and the NY Times are excellent sites, but
they are *news* sites, so of course their posts are going
to be about news and recent events. Science blogs, on the
other hand, can be about whatever the blogger wants (as long
as they are at least somewhat science related).

Wordpress has over 4 million blogs, the bloggers
can write about whatever they like (there are few
restrictions).

I've got a personal wordpress blog, and I rarely write
about timely events, instead I write about whatever
catches my fancy.

P.S. Over the years, I've read a whole lot of blogs,
and every time a blogger comes out with a book, they
promote their book on their blog, there's nothing
wrong with that. Plus, it's becoming more and more
common for authors to start blogging as a way to
promote their books, again, I really don't see
the problem.

Hit a Nerve?

Submitted by awa on January 24, 2009 - 6:59pm.

All I can observe at this point is that I hit quite a nerve with my comments. Why be so defensive? I was just expressing an opinion. You two are showing a whole lot more in your replies. Calm down, Tad, I don't care for the penis and vulva stories either.