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When I was a kid, on the Sunday before a Monday holiday, my dad would wake us kids up just before midnight. He’d settle us on the couch with popcorn and pizza rolls. And then we’d all watch one of the old movie adventure serials on the local UHF channel that they would play atContinue reading “Matchless, the stars took fire”

As a long-time manager, I still feel like there’s so much I can learn and, more importantly, share with the new managers that I work with. In my reading journey, I’ve settled on a current trifecta of management books that I share based on the experience of the manager that I’m working with: Making ofContinue reading “The quality of everything that follows”

I’d like to talk more about Mark Manson’s Everything is F*cked (there’s a lot in here, so I’ll probably come back again). The penultimate chapters of the book finally cover the subject of the title–with so much going for us, why are we unhappy? Manson talks about several experiments (one with colored dots, one withContinue reading “Just enough clouds to be slightly disappointed”

I have been a Batman fan for as long as I can remember. There’s a picture of me at about 2 years old, in bed, asleep, with a Batman alphabet book covering my face. So when we recently turned part of the unfinished basement into a small office for me, my wife surprised me withContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Batman!”

I recently started working my way through a list of top titles on networking that included Superconnector by Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh and Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi (with Tahl Raz). I read them in the wrong order. Never Eat Alone, which I read second, is the earlier work. Ferrazzi’s core tenet (thatContinue reading “Whom you know and how you work with them”

I’ve seen but haven’t read Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck mostly because I’ve read enough self-help that I figured I didn’t need another. His recent book, Everything is F*cked, sounded more interesting because it claimed to look at the larger situation and how we can have everything we have andContinue reading “Never merely as a means”

In The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, one of the characters becomes aware of Buddhist philosophy during the course of the novel. At one point, he has the following exchange: “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”Continue reading “But I keep trying…”