Giving out more free and vague marketing advice to people wanting to copy my hire a boss concept. The most common thing I say? I had magic (AKA Seth Godin) on my side. You can’t build a marketing plan around that. My success is deceiving. (Well, the speed of it, at least. I was going [...]
Categories: Stuff I know nothing about
It’s not what you think. So both halves of my friends can just smooth those feathers back down right now, OK? My problem? It’s with the law part of it. All this celebration over the government passing yet another law to dictate how we live our lives. Far better? For NY to have passed a [...]
Categories: Politics and Other Philosophy
One office I worked in, we only had blue and black pens. Oh, how nice it would be to have colored pens to use for editing the press releases, one person mused. Another complained repeatedly about the fact that we didn’t have colored pens to use for editing the press releases. I went and asked [...]
Categories: Stuff I know nothing about
Every time I turn on the radio these days, it takes several minutes to figure out just where we are. When the story uses words like rebels and government forces and fighting and protests, it’s easy to get lost. Are we in Libya? Ivory Coast? Iraq? Wait, is this stuff still going on in Tunisia? [...]
Categories: Liberty
Tagged: freedom
Watching all the coverage of the protests/riots/uprising in Egypt and elsewhere, I’m always struck by the idiotic things Americans say in response. (Not surprised, note. Just struck.) The latest thing is the man-on-the-street interviews about how “oh yes, we should help Egypt get democracy” and “democracy is the best thing ever” and equally trite statements. [...]
Categories: Liberty
on November experiment: Scheduling myself for strategic success
