“May you live in interesting times.” – Anon If you’re going to tweet controversial sociopolitical views, there is a chance that you’ll become famous. And if you do, there is a chance it may come back to haunt you at work. And if you then get into altercations at work,[…] Read On
Everyone tells me our education system is broken. Curious, I typed, “education system is …” into Google. The top suggestion to complete the search phrase was “broken.” The next four were “flawed,” “failing,” “bad” and “messed up.” Just as I suspected. I’m a big believer in Occam’s razor: all things[…] Read On
When a publication – any publication from anywhere in the world – even hints at something controversial out of President Trump’s mouth, it becomes headline news from every media outlet on Earth. Oftentimes it’s fake headline news. Yesterday, Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche ran the following story, “Trump Wants to Block Daimler From the[…] 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
Contrary to the cacophony of calls to break up Facebook, Google and Amazon, there’s nothing about being big, dominant, powerful or even a monopoly that goes afoul of U.S. antitrust law. That’s all perfectly legal, as it should be. We want to incentivize companies to grow big and gain market[…] Read On
Cruising down the center of a two way street Wondering who is really in the driver’s seat Minding my business along comes big brother Says, son, you better get on one side or the other – Eagles, On the Border, c. 1974 In 1974 I saw the Eagles with Dan[…] 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