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Two years ago, for reasons I won’t go into here, I bought a turntable. It was quite accidental, but now I find myself scouring e-bay and other sources for records. My wife thinks I’m crazy (or it’s another reason for her to think I’m crazy) but I now am totally into vinyl. Some say the [...] I was on a flight yesterday from San Antonio to Charlotte. A woman sat next to me and ahead of us were, it seemed, her parents. As we were taking off, the woman pulled out a pack of gum, offered a stick to each of her parents and turned and offered me one. It was, [...] Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about how people visit museums. The author juxtaposed the pre-technological age habit of “deep-diving” into literature and art versus today’s “smash-n-grab” approach (walk in to a museum, grab a headset, walk through, drop headset, have a latte). I think that we all feel like we are skimming [...] OK, so you’ve ridden out the worst of the this economic storm. You’re still alive, but your car’s sputtering and running out of gas. And it’s dark and you’re not sure where exactly you are or going. It there was a soundtrack to your life, now would be the time when the music raises the [...] Last week a friend of mine was diagnosed with a condition that requires a visit to the specialist. Her doctor gave her two names. She called one and the number routed her to an individual who took down all her particulars. When she tried to schedule an appointment, the person on the other end said [...] This weekend, I my son and his friend introduced me to the world of guerrilla drive-ins and macguffins. The guerrilla drive-in is a movie shown in secret outdoor locations. The one in our area shows movies like “Ghostbusters”, “Back to the Future”, etc from the seat of a 1977 BMW motorcycle sidecar, typically shown on [...] In a recent post at techcrunch.com, Sarah Lacy mused on whether execution is more important than vision. The vast majority of comments testified to the fact that execution (getting things done) is more important than vision (having the idea). In fact, the business world is littered with failed companies that had great ideas and successful [...] “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx. I’ve loved the Marx Brothers since I was in seventh grade. That was the year I switched from Catholic school to public school. It was a year I felt I could breathe again, [...] I’m in my living room, looking at my sofa and I’m not happy. The sofa is beat — torn up and god knows what else from the animals. In addition, since I took up the last wall of the living room with another bookcase, it’s slung kitty-corner in the room, making a goal-line stand in [...] Companies spend a lot of time talking about their products and how they stack up to the competition. They strategize about the need to reduce their cost or add a bell or whistle to set them apart. Now, I don’t want to discount the need to have a strong product offer. But at the end [...] |
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