Category Archives: Stuff I know nothing about

Waiting for the magic that’s never coming Comments Off

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 [...]

Ya don’t ask, ya don’t get Comments Off

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 [...]

Setting the bar too low is no way to reach higher Comments Off

Heard a radio story about Hispanics and college last year that chapped my hide. Seems there’s some concern because there more starting school than ever before, but few are finishing. The story made reference to the need to get more of them to complete college because we won’t have enough trained workers if we don’t. [...]

Give me some action!! Comments Off

Lots of reading, lots of talking, lots of informing going on. We learn about the bullying of government, the evils of companies, the idiocy of elected officials. But not about the most important part. Tell me what to _do_ about what we’re talking about. As I watch and read and ponder, I rarely ever see [...]

Charter government offices Comments Off

My latest brilliant idea after standing in line for 2.5 hours at the DPS office to spend three minutes taking the motorcycle rider license test – charter government offices. I’m a genius. After all, we see over and over how charter schools change the game for education. They do well or they go out of [...]