Laughter: the Universal Language

I was in the elevator the other day and heard a couple of foreigners laughing. Isn’t it interesting how regardless of culture, language, skin color, or upbringing, there’s one thing all humans have in common: we all laugh the same way. Countries have different approaches to sex, marriage, drug use, communication, work, socializing, but they all enjoy laughter in exactly the same way.

The cost of creativity

My good friend Zach Braiker has recently become a huge advocate of Facebook.  In fact, he’s the one who’s got me all excited about it.  In browsing through the Web 2.0 Entrepreneur’s group discussion forums, I haphazardly came across one of his posts and discovered one of my all time favorite quotes, by Zach himself:

“Being creative doesn’t cost a lot of money, creative people do.”

Seeing as Zach is one of the most creative and brilliant marketing minds I know, I’m thrilled to be lucky enough to get the best friend discount on his advice.