Has business gotten faster because we now communicate faster? Or are we now realizing that business moved slow because humans were, and still are, in the way?

A lot of skill, a little luck, a little talent, a lot of persistence will always be able to achieve the ludicrously difficult.

The job that a lot of people who read my blog do, didn’t exist yesterday. I’m amazed when I think my job didn’t really exist thirty years ago (video game developer) and I’m working with people (social network community managers) whose job didn’t exist three years ago. Next year there will be jobs and job…

How do I know the nonsense you are peddling isn’t real? There’s two simple tests that I can perform to find out. The National Geographic Monks in a Monastery Test Has National Geographic done an expose about a group of Tibetan monks living in a remote monastery somewhere concerning whatever mysticism you’re pushing on me?…

Kleptomaniacs take things literally. It’s a pun. It’s also why you can never explain one to them.

If you’ve got information, the more the better, it will have two distinct attributes, both of which involve money. The information will have one or the other attribute, or even both at the same time. 1) Someone, somewhere will be willing to pay money to gain access to it. 2) Someone, somewhere, will be willing…

The one thing I’ve learned about anything I do is that if I love doing it, nothing will stop me from doing it. Software development, writing, making music, doodling badly drawn comic books, furniture building. But none of the things I do are an instant step to making a lot of money. If you are…

I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of months and perhaps I am behind the times with it, but why does music radio still exist? Traditional radio stations that play a mixture of music and news with a DJ that makes announcements. Why are they still around? With the rise of music on demand…

I thank my parents for teaching me that I am never too good to take on a shitty job that’s beneath me.

I’ve been saying this for years, based on even the most cursory reading of the literature that is out there, that not all sugars are processed by the body in the same way. Fructose and glucose, even though they appear chemically similar, are treated by, and processed in, the human body in totally different ways.…

Who the Hell brags in their profile that they’re “published on LinkedIn.” Seriously!?! Maybe I am missing some context somewhere. Have we sunk so low as a society that we now need to celebrate every piece of mediocrity that we engage with?

Nobody sits engineers and software developers down at the end of their education and says to them “Remember this, as your entire career success hinges on it..” and then they spill the secrets to being a successful engineer or developer or accountant. Instead we’re sold on facts and data and deep knowledge about a subject…

For every action, there will be a social media overreaction.

Leaders work on their business. Bosses work in their business. I’ve worked for a lot of bosses and I respect none of them.

I cannot respect any person who insists on getting on the elevator before people who need to get off actually have.

It’s 1999 all over again (almost). Investors keep throwing handfuls of darts at a dartboard without any kind of aiming and hope by a miracle that they will hit the bullseye. Smart investors at least know where the dartboard is. Really smart investors are actually in the same room as the dartboard. Translation for the…

I receive a lot of email from recruiters because I keep refreshing my resume on a monthly basis. Whether I am looking for a contract position or nothing at all, it never hurts to have exposure and having people contacting you. However, I have noticed, over the past several years, that the level of penmanship…

With the current state of college admissions and the technologically backward, myopic thinking most higher education institutions engage in I think it will take me longer to determine how to get an education than it will take to get the education.

I’m not stand off-ish, quiet or shy. I just don’t like you.

I find myself this evening at a Starbucks in Van Nuys, drinking a coffee, watching dozens of people who are not drinking coffee, or any sort of drink actually, play very bad games of chess. There are two points to this very short post, and it is a very short post with only two points,…