I wrote my first post on this blog — it’s pretty terrible — on October 21, 2013. A year later to the day, I landed at Brussels Airport. There’s a tie between the two and a transparent story about the… Continue Reading
100 used to be a semi-unattainable age. It still mostly is, but more and more people will get there — to the point that The Atlantic did a cover story on that topic, which I just read on a plane. (Interestingly, the… Continue Reading
I converted to Catholicism in March of 2013. I wouldn’t necessarily say I was anything major before that — I think technically I was Protestant — but I converted in part because it seemed relevant / interesting (my mom grew… Continue Reading
Dating back to 1999, this is how many games the Kansas City Royals lost in each season (remember, more than 81 losses in a MLB season means you’re a sub-.500 team):
I find buyer behavior pretty interesting. (I mean, who wouldn’t, am I right?) I know people — pretty close to me — who totally nickel-and-dime a $400 flight somewhere, but then spend $8K on new dishes. (No joke.) Clearly, the… Continue Reading
A couple of years ago, my wife and I — who at the time I believe was just my significant other — were walking with another couple in Astoria, over in Queens (over in New York — why do I keep… Continue Reading
Here’s a new book from John Pollack — a former Bill Clinton speechwriter — called Shortcut, with the sub-title being “How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas.” Like anything in the business world circa 2014, once Fast Company wrote… Continue Reading
I went to a wedding this past weekend in North Carolina. It was a great, majestic, soaring wedding — in a way, aren’t they all? — and by and large, I had a very good time. It was with probably… Continue Reading