Here is a pretty cool lesson in the structure and travel of information in the Blogosphere (that’s bloggers on the Internet talking to each other about each other). If you haven’t read the book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (affiliate link) by Malcolm Gladwell yet, then you are really missing [...]

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…in life is that if you’ve never listened to the Willie Nelson song You Were Always On My Mind during a time when your mind and heart were open to suggestion and didn’t break into tears, then you’ve never truly been in love.
It’s been my experience that you always take the things you love the [...]

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Back before I had a blog, I used to hard code all my posts in chronological order. This post was originally made on Sunday January 11, 2004:
It’s official; according to a very recent Gallup Poll, Republicans are far more likely to consider themselves “happy” with their station in life than either Democrats or [...]

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People often ask me for quick hit advice on how to get ahead in their company. They ask me because I have a decent track record.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, which is almost worthless except for the fact that you can often attach “English” or “Communications” to the subtext of [...]

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Here’s a simple truth about business: You can’t manage people; you can only manage the processes that people work inside.
People must ultimately manage themselves and any manager who doesn’t understand this has defeated their purpose before they even begin.
Managers must engage processes by studying, analyzing, and streamlining them so as to make it as easy [...]

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Check this out.
(CP) - A stay-at-home mother of three who created a website to alert the government about allegedly dangerous environmental problems in her southwestern Ontario neighbourhood is facing a $2 million libel suit by one of the developers she reported on.
Louisette Lanteigne of Waterloo, Ont., said she grew sick of what she saw during [...]

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Normally, I detest being around large groups of people. But I make two exceptions: Ohio State football games and shopping the day after Thanksgiving. It has been a tradition for my wife and I to get up at 04:00 the day after Thanksgiving and trek off to Best Buy, Kohls, and whatever other [...]

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My wife is absolutely convinced that Microsoft engineered this entire XBox 360 “shortage” in order to drive Christmas sales up through I can’t get it so I must have it shopping frenzy mentality that once led to mothers slugging each other over cabbage patch dolls and beanie babies.
And I saw firsthand today how basic economics [...]

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I was in Best Buy the other day and was walking past the music section. I was approached by a young burly black dude who offered the seminal Best Buy greeting, “Is there anything I can help you find today?”
Normally I just say, “No thanks, I’m just looking.” But today, for some [...]

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I took a Risk Management course from ESI last year and as an introduction to Risk, the instructor handed out a statistical analysis on playing the lottery. I thought I had lost it but came across it today. This should make you think twice before wasting your money on the stupid lottery…
Lotteries: A [...]

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