The Secret You

What is free will? Who is really in charge of your decisions? Is it you, your conscious self or your unconscious mass? How aware are you of your true self, the true ‘you’ who lays hidden in your consciousness?

In this amazing BBC Horizon episode “The Secret You” from 2009, Professor Marcus du Sautoy takes a deeper look into these questions and tries to show us the evidence of consciousness and its effects on ‘being’.

True, there is no direct link between my blog, on how to gain practical insights into online optimization, and this BBC Documentary (although I will try to make this link later), but the Neuroscience element is simply intriguing and I am confident many of you will find it interesting, too.

The most interesting evidence shown, was from an experiment that proves that we subconsciously make decisions long before we are consciously aware of them. In this specific experiment up to 6 seconds!

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Interview with Derek Sivers

During the eDay 2010 conference, hosted by Emerce in Rotterdam, I had the opportunity for a one-on-one with Derek Sivers.

Derek was the driving force behind CDBaby.com and HostBaby.com helping independent musicians sell there music via the internet. In 2008, Derek sold CDBaby and started a 2 year journey to everywhere. Living the nomadic lifestyle has been an interesting venture, one that cannot be valued in money.

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Interview with Sean Power

This is a short interview with Complete Web Monitoring co-author Sean Power, who was invited by Measureworks to give a workshop with the same title, conducted during the Web Analytics Congress 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Interview with Stéphane Hamel

This interview with Stéphane Hamel, freelance consultant at Immeria, was recorded during the Web Analytics Congres 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Stéphane, invited by Adversitement, gave a workshop “Roadmap to online analytics success” where he talked about his Online Analytics Maturity Model and went into it underlying approach.

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Interview with Manoj Jasra

In this interview with Manoj Jasra, owner and founder of Web Analytics World, I talk to him about:

• how it all started back in 2006
• his new upcoming job at WestJet
• his view on Multi Brand analytics
• the selling of his blog Web Analytics World
• his iPad application Josh & Emma
• his new project Local Deal Spot
• how Manoj balances his family life, work and projects on a day to day basis

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