She had left awful reviews about our company, left comments on every post on our blog telling us how awful our service was. Really.Ī few years ago I received an email from a customer. ![]() The trick of course is to remember that people are basically smart, and kind. Incur the wrath of the people and the web becomes a scary, dark and unforgiving place. Unfortunately sometimes these smart individuals seem to group together as an anonymous, unaccountable and aggressive mob. No other medium allows you to get as personal with your customers as the web. Social media give you excellent access to individuals. Humans are smart as individuals but dumb as groupsĪs an online entrepreneur, website owner or even just someone with an online profile here at Linkedin you are dealing with both sides of the smart/dumb coin. But in groups they are dump and dangerous'.Īnts are dumb as individuals and smart as groups 'Well.' I started 'I guess that humans, as individuals, are smart. We talked about her plans for the evening and I warned her to avoid the crowds a bit. ![]() She is ten and she was going to visit a Lady Gaga concert that evening. I explained to her how one ant isn't all that smart, or powerful, but that ants as a community are very smart and powerful. Thank you NetGalley and Capstone, for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.This week I was talking to my daughter about ants. Because I remember that by the age of 6, I already knew how to do multiples and division. I'm not very sure this kind of math is suitable for ages 5-7. □ There is some math in this book, but it's just very basic math with plus problems only, such as: 1 + 1 = 2 5 + 5 = 10 etc. In a good way, it does help children learn how to pronounce it much easier way, but on the other hand, I found it could be misleading, and they might end up pronouncing it incorrectly instead of correctly. □ Ah right, I know this is a story about ants, but did you need to put every word that contains the word "ANT" in capital letters?įor example: "constANTly" "plANTs" "gigANTic" "giANT" "vacANT" "repentANT" "mANTles" "tenANTs" etc But then they become friends with this elephant.The end! □ The story itself is just about ants who are working to build their home and, at the end, get stepped on by an elephant. □ When I picked up this book, I thought it would teach little kids about how ants worked or how they interacted with each other, but it did neither. ![]() □ Way too colorful there are some pages where i felt like the colors overlapped. Even if slightly flawed, the way this does more than the routine – taking more work on its shoulders and carrying it all off perfectly well enough – is top marks. Is this a maths reviser the very young will want to re-read? Count on it. But that aside I just didn't expect this book to have it all – the educational aspect as well as the strong entertainment from the surprise. What with the colourfully-presented maths, and the count-along aspects, and the rhyming narrative, and the twist, I thought the constANT word punning was actually too much, a case of bad form(ica). We then start to count down backwards – only to find that not only is all this going on, but we're due a major surprise as well. So we get the narrative of their sort-of chant as they labour, and very easy sums, and a revision to one-to-ten, including a checklist midpoint through things. We're with a troupe of ants who are building their new home, and luckily it is a solitary building, of two floors, with three this and four that, and before long we're counting up, just as at the same time the industrious workers are doing their relevant maths. A book that might not look like a five-starrer, but by the rules I set myself (ie the rules I set the books I review) this has to deserve it, for going the extra step and including the unexpected amongst the routine stuff someone would buy it for.
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