Archive for August, 2011

Yasmin Shiraz is proof that there are many quality people you can meet on Twitter and actually get to talk to. Books, movies, speaking engagements, activism… if it’s important, she has something to say about it and she says it well. On my other blog I named her as one of 21 of the Top […]

My wife does a lot of projects around the home. I don’t get to help her with almost any of them. Unfortunately, I’m not that handy with tools, and never have been. Give me a screwdriver and I’m a monster; give me anything else and there’s the possibility of disaster coming. Right now my wife […]

Something I do from time to time is offer to promote other people on my blogs. Two weeks ago I promoted a local artist friend of mine on two different blogs, reaching out to a very large audience. I’m not sure how much it helped him overall, but people liked looking at his art and […]

You know, I haven’t always made the best decisions as a manager, at least not initially. Read this story I have to share with you. Back in 1988, I was working for a physician billing company. The company was going down; that’s an understatement. What was happening is the company top brass thought the business […]

At the beginning of last week we were treated to two Freudian slips, if you will, from a politician and a political pundit. Both were aimed at President Obama, which figures because he’s been the direct recipient of them since he took the presidency. On one end was a congressman who, in a conversation, referred […]