Warning: This post is inappropriate. Extremely so if you actually look up any of the stuff I refer to. (Blogger does NOT recommend doing that.) I’m writing it because it’s also true, and even inappropriate truth deserves an audience. The scene: Big Bowl (It’s a restaurant.) I’m out for dinner with my wife and another [...]
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Real Life Fails
According to Edward Gibbon, the author of the voluminous The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the following were the five signs of Rome’s “decaying culture”: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth. Obsession with sex and perversions of sex. Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original. Widening disparity between [...]
Go to Google. Do a search. Now hurry, try to click on the top result; I bet you can’t. I bet that by the time you mouse over to click on the first search result, it’s been pushed down and replaced by a paid ad. Except by the time your brain processes this, you’ve already [...]
The male mind is not a complicated thing. We can dress it up, confine it, correct for intelligence and/or emotional maturity, but on the whole it’s pretty simple. Most of the cliches are true. At least, most of them are true most of the time. The thing is, discussing the male mind has become taboo. [...]
A tumor is a mass of cells in one’s body that shows up, serves no purpose, and starts siphoning off nutrients from other areas that need them. The prudent thing is to remove it. With all due respect to my friends and colleagues who are bankers, investors, and financiers, the fact of the matter is [...]
Let’s review my experience with United Airlines and my baggage, shall we? I check my skis in Denver for a flight to O’Hare. For this service I pay $25. The friendly gate agent in Denver tells us it’s going to be a full flight and asks for volunteers to gate check their bags. Since I’ve [...]
I had a meeting last week with the COO of a $8 billion+ company who squeezed in a meeting with my partner and I in the midst of 26 in-person customer calls, internal development work, and a 6-month tour of duty with bankers. He’s a competent individual—any assessment tool would pick up on a number [...]
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