2,235 stories by "Joe Patti"
Hat tip to Dan Pink who tweeted about a study which found teaching improv to students can lower social anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty. The study authors noted that historically, …
I am sure most people are aware of the clamoring anger about ticket sales for Taylor Swift's concerts, mostly blaming Ticketmaster for screwing things up, but also potentially being complici…
Apropos to my post on Monday about how gift recipients value experiences over material gifts, Pew Research Center recently released research finding showing that spending time with famil…
Wired recently had an article about the challenges facing independent artists when it comes to touring. Many are facing a combination of higher costs, a flooded market, and limited resources…
So I serendipitously started on my drive to work this past Saturday evening at the exact time a Hidden Brain episode mentioned how research shows that recipients of gifts prefer experiential…
An interesting situation has arisen in connection with at check out donation solicitations. Credit to Isaac Butler who retweeted a link to a post about a man who brought suit against drugsto…
Here is a fun little conversation for performing arts venues because there is a fair chance you have a different point of view as a venue operator than as a consumer. I saw this tweet last w…
About six weeks ago I alluded to the fact I was moving to take up a new job. A month ago I joined the City of Loveland, Colorado Cultural Services to lead the Rialto Theater. I have …
While I try to write posts about the arts in general, the fact is the content of my posts tends to orient toward performing arts rather visual arts. That said, there are a lot of parallel ex…
You may have seen news about Ulster County, NY's demon-spider I Voted sticker. It made national news because the design by 14 year old Hudson Rowan was so strikingly cool/strange and garnere…
I was interested to see there was some research conducted with some of the earliest recipients of MacKenzie Scott's unrestricted gifts to various non-profits between 2020 and 2021. The media…
I saw a tweet by Maria Popova linking to a piece she wrote about the philosopher Seneca's thoughts on gratitude and thought it might make an appropriate post for Thanksgiving. Seneca was a p…
Over the years, I have written a fair bit on culture passes that various European countries have distributed to young people. In addition to passes for cultural experiences and goods, so…
I was out taking a walk this weekend and flipped over to the NPR livestream just as an episode of the Splendid Table came on. As they introduced the second guest, Priya Parker, I wondered wh…
My nephew is in the throes of writing essays for college applications so perhaps that is why a Twitter thread by author Kelly Barnhill caught my attention a month ago. She talks about how ne…
Okay, a little bit of a rant today. I have wanted to get this off my chest for a couple years now. Who decided that greeting customers with "What can I get started for you today?" was a good…
About a week ago, The Atlantic had an article that answered a question that has been nagging me for quite a few years " are kids still passing down the silly, nonsense jokes, hand clapping r…
Little trip down memory lane to an entry I did referencing Joe LeBlang, the owner of a tobacco shop whose entrepreneurial mind created NYC's first Times Square discount ticket service in …
I have been listening to the pledge drive for the statewide public radio network the last couple weeks and been thinking nostalgically about my time living in Hawaii when I was a regular gue…
I saw an article on the NBC News site questioning the value of standing ovations with a subtitle suggesting the seeming default occurrence of the act was a symptom of "'everyone gets a troph…
Many arts organizations are seeing a drop in ticket sales and subscriptions this year which got me to thinking about a TED talk Dan Ariely did about how unwanted options helped helped people…
Back in 2009 I wrote about a TED talk Dan Pink did on motivation. In particular, he discussed how monetary rewards was successful at motivating people in mechanical tasks, but when it came t…
Perusing my archives, I came across a post about something Adam Thurman of The Mission Paradox blog wrote regarding the poor work environment in the arts. While people, including myself, wer…
Looking back at past entries, I came across a post I wrote about educator Jane Remer's thoughts about arts in education. I had read and written this post years before I began corresponding w…
I am going to be traveling and preparing to take up a new position so I am dipping back into the archives to help provide some content while I am busy elsewhere. One of the first entries…
