Don’t tell my wife, but I had a few childhood crushes. My first was Patty Duke, in black and white. I think I was six or seven at the time. Then there was Betty, of Betty and Veronica comic book fame. And Jane Fonda in the sexy sci-fi spoof Barbarella was[…] Read On
If you actually have the courage to say what you mean, mean what you say, and stand up for your principles, even when that flies in the face of prevailing cultural norms, will it ever come back to haunt you someday? I really couldn’t say, but if that ever happens[…] Read On
I had all sorts of crappy jobs growing up. I was a foot messenger in mid-town Manhattan. I cleaned up blood and guts in a butcher shop. And after four and a half years of college and a BS degree in physics, I was a part time vault attendant at[…] Read On
In a culture where everyone’s too distracted to remember more than a sound bite or a quote, everything gets taken out of context. Lost are those all-important assumptions, nuances, caveats, and tradeoffs that make all the difference when it comes to decision-making. Take “do what you love” and the essentially[…] Read On
Quick question: When you see the title, subtitle, and image below, what comes to mind? This is what one woman took away from it: She’s referring, at least in part, to the phrase “Entrepreneurship is about being the last man standing” that entrepreneur.com tweeted in promoting the article. I’ve so[…] Read On
As children, we were taught that actions lead to consequences. I know I was. And when I behaved badly, those consequences were immediate and unavoidable. There was simply no way to escape their causal relationship. Looking back, I’m still not a fan of how strict a disciplinarian my father was,[…] 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