Category Archives: Insights
50
My father said that you can’t invest in retrospect. When you turn 50, you have to. It’s a time to look back, take stock of where you are and how you got there, and decide where you are going. As I look around my home office, I see my life’s highlight reel. My Eagle Scout …
Forgiving Dad
For a long time, I couldn’t forgive my father. I couldn’t forgive him for cheating on my mom. I couldn’t forgive for spending weekends and evening away from home at a job I knew he didn’t really like. I couldn’t forgive him for not showing more of an interest in me. I couldn’t forgive him …
“To the graduating class of 2011…”
I’ve never been asked to give a graduation speech. I don’t mind because a graduation speech is probably the most useless one anyone can give. You try to impart 5–7 minutes worth of wisdom (which the students should have been given over the past 18 years) at a time when people are the least inclined to …
What Justin Bieber can teach us about Web marketing
One of the things that I saw in the Justin Bieber concert film Never Say Never (besides disturbing scenes of prepubescent lust) is how important the Internet is in promoting artists. Justin Bieber is an Internet creation. He was discovered from his YouTube videos and built his fan base through Twitter. So, what can the rest …
“Not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”
Yesterday marked the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s speech urging Congress, “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” Looking at that speech along side the images of Apollo 11 fulfilling that …
