Less than 11 months ago, I watched Donald Trump announce his candidacy and wrote the following for my Fox Business Critical Thinking column. As the Republican nominee who will indeed run against Hillary Clinton for President of the United States, it’s even more relevant today than it was then: My initial reaction to news that Donald J.[…] Read On
Twelve-hour workday. Feed the dogs. Chicken tacos with black beans and guac (for us, not the dogs). Hornitos margaritas. Marvell’s Agents of Shield and iZombie on TV. Typical Tuesday at the Tobaks. And we are happy campers. In a world full of popular pretentious fanatical phonies — vegans who brag[…] Read On
Branding has a branding problem. The advent of “personal branding” and broad substitution of the word “brands” for “companies” have diluted the meaning of this critically important principle for individuals and marketing strategy for companies big and small. Branding is actually about making and keeping promises. A brand tells customers[…] Read On
We tend to think of time as fundamental. An immutable fixture of nature. Something no one and nothing can escape. Actually, none of that’s true. You see, time is a funny thing. The Big Bang didn’t just create our universe and everything in it. It also created space and time,[…] Read On
Richard Dreyfuss took a lot of heat for attending a Ted Cruz campaign rally a few weeks ago. Which is ironic, since the famous actor leans about as far left as you can without falling over. He just likes to hear and engage other viewpoints. I guess his liberal friends in Hollywood[…] Read On
I love getting email from readers, especially hate emails like this friendly missive from a gentleman ostensibly named “Doug” (Warning: expletive alert … even though I bleeped some of them, it’s still pretty raunchy): I’m an aerospace engineer who can’t get a job. I won’t go into the specifics because[…] Read On
In case you missed it, actor Sean Penn wrote a long, rambling piece for Rolling Stone about “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who recently escaped from prison. Somewhere in the 10,000-word essay is a surprisingly trite, pandering, and frankly embarrassing interview. More interesting is the way Penn seems to[…] Read On