Great stories happen to those who can tell them. – Ira Glass Everybody loves a good story. And as an extension of that, people tend to love a good storyteller. Sometimes I wonder why my mom married my dad. Sure, he would eventually help produce some amazing offspring, but she couldn’t have known that then. However,…
No good deed goes unpunished. — Clare Boothe Luce We like to believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. In movies, the good guys almost always win. In children’s books, misbehavior is almost always caught. And even though anecdotal experience provides countless counterexamples, we still cling to…
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. – Steven Wright The Greek myth of Pandora’s Box remains one of the most well-known tales of the ancient gods, in which, Pandora, given a box she’s told not to open, let’s her curiosity consume her, opening the box and releasing a host of…
Charisma is the fragrance of the soul. — Toba Beta When I was younger, I used to love playing Dungeons and Dragons type games. Well, I still love those action adventure fantasies, I just don’t have the time. All right, I do have the time; I just get exhausted trying to create the voices of friends in my…
For a complete list of Jake’s research and publications, click here for his CV. To see his profile at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, visit his faculty page here. EXPERTISE BOOK The Handbook of Personalized Persuasion: Theory and Application (link) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2025: “Does Artificial Intelligence Cause Artificial Confidence? Generative AI as an…
7/2017 – RHYME ON!: In Loudoun County’s annual poetry contest, they selected my poem, What is Poetry? for the winner of their free-verse category. 3/2017 – “Her Heart Poetry” published my piece, For Her, Always, for their annual anthology, in both their digital and hard copy prints–even nominating the piece to their “Highly Commended” category. …