As an executive officer of several public companies back in the day, I used to marvel at the stones on some of the retail investors who frequented the Yahoo Finance message boards. Some of their opinions were well-considered, but the vast majority were of the senseless rant and rave variety.[…] Read On
There was a time when a nice man robbing you at gunpoint would have at least given you a choice: “Your money or your life.” Funny thing is, you’d have a hard time spending your money if you were dead. As decisions go, it’s sort of a no-brainer. Having never[…] Read On
Get this: Facebook has 2 billion monthly active users. That means nearly two thirds of Earthlings with internet access are faithful customers of Zuck’s social network. Not only that, the average user spends nearly an hour on the site every day. Let that sink in for a minute. Given the[…] Read On
The idea behind the Trump movement was that the nation needed a successful business leader to fix Washington’s perpetual gridlock. That only a political outsider could come in and drain the swamp. At least, that was the theory. In some ways, the president is behaving more like a back-stabbing politician[…] Read On
The Brooklyn of my youth was not the bastion of political correctness, groupthink and sexual confusion it is today. We said what we meant, meant what we said and knew how to think for ourselves. Girls were girls and boys were boys, not gutless metrosexual gnomes who gave up their[…] Read On
Imagine a caveman getting down on his knees on the shore of a serene lake for an afternoon drink of water, only to catch his reflection and become the first human to actually behold his own face. Being a marginally intelligent creature, our prehistoric ancestor eventually realizes that the image[…] Read On
Every day, one or two of the craftier PR people manage to sneak through my defenses and get a pitch into my active inbox, for all the good it’ll do. Got one last week from a publicist pitching a book by a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist I’d never heard of.[…] Read On