“Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.” – anon The day the Wall Street Journal ran its blockbuster expose on Theranos I saw Elizabeth Holmes defend herself on CNBC. The CEO claimed that everyone from Quest Diagnostics to John Carreyrou — the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter[…] Read On
As long as there have been insiders, insiders have been leaking to the press. It’s as common in business as it is in politics. Maybe more so. The thing is, people don’t usually leak for the reasons you might think. I’d lay odds that most people think insiders leak because[…] Read On
I am what a good shrink might call a master at compartmentalization. In case you’ve never heard the term, it’s an unconscious mechanism that enables people like me to make believe that things we don’t want to exist really don’t exist, all so we can focus on our own narrow[…] Read On
We’ve all said things we regret, things we’d take back in a heartbeat if we could. Some of us have even been dumb enough to document our hateful rants in writing. The funny thing is, the internet never forgets, and those mistakes will inevitably come back to haunt us. You[…] Read On
Some folks are so selfish and self-involved they have no idea what’s going on around them. Since these narcissists genuinely believe the world revolves around them, they use the world and everyone and everything in it as an extension of their own egos. The problem is, they have driver’s licenses.[…] Read On
Now that senseless attacks like what happened in Toronto and Nashville are covered 24×7 by the click-happy media that never lets a good tragedy go to waste, the Twitterati and Instagramites have gotten into the habit of “sending love and healing thoughts” to people they’ve never even met. Sometimes entire[…] Read On
I’m not a big fan of infographics. You know, those visual snapshots that boil down entire subjects to a few statistics and sound bites. Infographics and social media are how our ADHD world consumes information. Data without all the muss and fuss of nuance, context, reason and experience. Imagine my[…] Read On