A big part of being happy and successful in the modern world is learning to identify and avoid a virtual epidemic of spammers, scammers and fraudsters. If you’ve ever caught an animal in a trap, whether it was a mouse, a gopher or a wasp, you probably felt several distinct[…] Read On
Another fine hot sunny Saturday afternoon in Silly Valley. Got a gazillion things to do but don’t feel like doing any of them, so I check out Twitter and find #IfIHad24HoursLeft trending. Realizing that tweeting is the last thing I want to be doing if time is running out, I[…] Read On
One of the biggest challenges we all have to overcome is the notion that others have it better than we do. In the age of social media it’s all too easy to get caught in the trap of “Why isn’t my [career, business, life … fill in the blank] taking[…] Read On
During a follow-up doctor’s appointment for my broken foot, I learned that a bunch of the fine orthopedic specialists at SOAR Medical – surgeons to many Bay Area sports teams and injury-prone klutzes like me – are heading to a country in Africa I’ve never heard of on a medical[…] Read On
Everyone talks about changing the world. Starry-eyed socialists. Millennials. Entrepreneurs. Millennials who think they’re entrepreneurs but are really just freelancers, gig workers or unemployed slackers. Even corporate executives. Pretty much everyone seems desperate to have their work mean more than just a paycheck, so CEOs are scrambling to infuse a[…] Read On
Nobody would argue that fear-mongering headlines based on selective data have all but taken over the click-hungry media. The more red meat for the social media mobs, the better. What about the sacrosanct notion of income inequality — that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer?[…] Read On
When you try to boil down complex concepts to the kind of motivational missives that the Twitterverse eats up, the sound-bites you come up with may sound compelling, but they’re usually misleading or just plain wrong. The problem is, people are bombarded with that sort of oversimplified bullshit 24×7. Case[…] Read On