Peter Harris, Author at The Yackler Magazine

New research reveals the horrifying future Netflix has in store for us

Leave a Comment / News & research / By Peter Harris

A new report has combined data from various healthcare studies on how a sedentary lifestyle affects the human body. The news isn’t good for Netflix addicts. I’m not singling out one particular platform, the report is actually called “Future Netflix Bingers.” The researchers created virtual models, “Eric and Hannah”, digital representations of what a man …

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Proof that the cable companies think that most of us are lazy morons

Leave a Comment / Management, Marketing / By Peter Harris

When I moved into a new house just over a year ago, I changed internet service providers. Because I was signing on as a new customer, they offered me a reduced price, limited time offer. It was a great deal. Too good to last, of course. Cut to a year later, and I got the …

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You want what now? Content creation and client feedback

Leave a Comment / Management, Marketing / By Peter Harris

I was writing an email campaign for a client to introduce their company and services to an audience that fit their target demographic. It was an interesting, challenging project. My contact at the company loved the first drafts, but as always happens, they had to be run up the food chain for approval from her …

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How to get lucky

Leave a Comment / Careers, Management / By Peter Harris

Luck is actually a skill you can practice, and it can be learned. Here are a few examples of how it works. I hear it again and again when people talk about someone who as a really great or unusual job: “Wow, they’re really lucky to have landed that gig.” And it’s true, competition for …

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Why people shoot down your new ideas (a historic look)

Management / By Peter Harris

Innovation is essential for success in business, but some people just don’t like change. If you’ve ever tried to introduce a new technology or a new approach to doing business to an organization with a long established way of doing things, then you know the resistance you can face. Certain people are just reluctant to …

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Four-legged forecasters: The history of Groundhog Day

Uncategorized / By Peter Harris

Wait, what? It’s Groundhog Day again already? Whoa. Déjà vu. Since the 1993 comedy film starring Bill Murray, it seems that Groundhog Day has become synonymous in popular culture with repetitive or routine days where the same things seem to happen over and over again. Kind of like falling into a rut in the dead …

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Ten beginnings of sentences that mean you don’t need to listen to the rest of the sentence

Careers, Management / By Peter Harris

Some days there just aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish all of the things that you need to get done. We all form our own coping mechanisms for saving time and separating the essential from unnecessary, so I’m going to share one of my secrets for avoiding wasted time with you. We talk …

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Ten things that are more important than your talent or credentials

Careers / By Peter Harris

No matter how good you are, throughout your life and career, you are going to meet people who are more talented or educated than you are. That doesn’t have to mean they’re going to be more successful than you are. You can do better than them. You just have to decide to. In many ways, …

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You really need an editor (humorous typos that professionals missed)

Careers, Management / By Peter Harris

Everyone makes mistakes. Some slip-ups are just a little more public (and potentially career-ending) than others. My colleagues and I in content marketing – who frequently write about writing – often note that if you write a piece about the importance of proofreading your work, you’re almost guaranteed to leave a typo in it. The …

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The most useless things you learned in school

Uncategorized / By Peter Harris

Remember asking your teacher, “When am I ever going to use this?” as they tried to explain sign and cosine and other trigonometric functions to you in math class? Yeah, it turns out you were never going to use that. In fact, there are a great many things we get taught in school that are …

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