I just received a tweet from a follower asking that I stop spamming him with ads. Do I spam with ads? Well, sort of. I've scheduled four tweets in the last week to go out advertising my upcoming Do-It Days™, interspersed with three or four times as many...
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Thanks, Teachers, Firefighters & Others!
Thank you, firefighters, soldiers, teachers, policemen, doctors, nurses, pipe fitters, teachers, civil servants, electricians, plumbers, utility workers, and people who keep our everyday lives running smoothly. Thank you, artists, dancers, actors, volunteers, and...
Did I go too far with this response?
A publicist just pitched me a story about carbon monoxide detectors, which isn't really a good fit for my podcast. I sent the following response. One person thinks I went a little too far. What do you think? Hi! Did you listen to my podcast before sending me the below...
If you want to reward your customers, reward them!
I went shopping at RITE-AID today and saw one of my favorite products advertised as: "Buy 2, get $2 off your next purchase." I grabbed two bottles and made my way to the register … where the clerk informed me that I could only get the deal if I had their frequent...
Be present: Put down your #@*($& phone!
I've noticed that more and more, people walk around with their phones glued to their ear or to their hands. They stand in the middle of hallways with the phone pressed against their ear, as if their life depended on it. They block stairways, staring entranced into...
Creative deal structure–could it solve the housing crisis?
One of the most essential negotiating skills is the ability to divide up the risk, reward, blame, and credit properly among the parties in a negotiation. One of the reasons many people are so outraged at the financial collapse brought about by the real estate bubble...
What is dark matter, anyway?
Last week, I suggested that we could use dark matter to organize our own cult and meet angels. I was joking. But it got me thinking... what is dark matter, anyway? I've long held that human beings ignore a fundamental truth about how we perceive the world: we do it...
Physics used to justify wishful thinking
The Copenhagen interpretation of physics is used to justify wish-and-it’s-yours principles of some new age thinking. In this article, I suggest that other unexplored physics phenomena can be equally useful.
Income Distribution and the Ultra-Rich
A friend wrote to a group I'm part of: Some folks I know who are at pre-IPO companies are really opposed to Warren Buffett's support of raising taxes on the ultra-rich, saying that Buffett is helping keep a glass ceiling in place between them and being super rich....
Job hunting process
As we've been developing JobTacToe.com, we've been discovering that most job hunters we've encountered don't seem to have particularly good process in mind. They don't know what they should do each day. They have no metrics set up to know if they're making progress....