Somewhere between lowly peon and rock-star CEO is a sweet spot where our careers flourish. We spend our entire adult lives fleeing the former, frantically scaling the corporate ladder like some crazed workaholic monkey to attain the latter, all in an effort to hopefully find that elusive sweet spot where[…] Read On
While mentoring a very sharp young entrepreneur the other day I got to thinking about how things might have turned out if my career began today instead of way back in the dark ages. What if I’d gone the entrepreneurial route instead of working for a big tech company like[…] Read On
“So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks[…] Read On
I can’t believe I’m actually doing this. I had hoped that all this big bad Facebook nonsense would go away on its own but now I can see that’s not going to happen. And all the breathless, sensationalist hype over a 6,000+ word NY Times expose Delay, Deny and Deflect: How[…] Read On
There’s a cycle that anyone who has a chronic problem with drugs, alcohol, anxiety or depression knows all-too-well: 1) emotional low, 2) self-medication, 3) bad decision-making, 4) hangover/daylight, 5) emotional low. Rinse and repeat. Strangely enough emotional highs result in essentially the same cycle. The problem is this: The cycle[…] Read On
I was a superhero junky growing up. I wasn’t partial to Marvel or DC Comics but there has always been a distinct difference between the two: Marvel’s writing was more personal, its characters more real. Accessible. Lovable. Hateable too. In a word, Marvel’s superheroes were more human. That was comic[…] Read On
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.” – Captain Renault, Casablanca There’s simply no way that Facebook ousted Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey because he was pro-Trump, as the Wall Street Journal reported in a blockbuster story yesterday. Don’t be ridiculous. The social media giant would[…] Read On