There are Three Things

by | Jul 21, 2007 | culture, transportation, working

I’ve been saying it for a while, but I think it’s time to blog it before somebody writes a book on it. I believe that there are at least three things that nearly every American adult belives that he or she is good at, and that in reality, only a small...

Is that your personal brand, or are you just fixated?

by | Jul 19, 2007 | culture, working

So I got back yesterday from presenting at the Baptie Marketing Focus Conference to discover that my loyal team of marketeers had been busy on an integrated marcomm project: redecorating my office, apparently in honor of my birthday. The first thing I noticed right...

I am a loyal disciple of the SeatGuru

by | Jul 16, 2007 | technology, travel

I shouldn’t be telling you about this site. The more people who know, the less my competitive advantage is in knowing. But information wants to be free, and at SeatGuru.com, some very valuable information is provided completely free. SeatGuru.com tells you the...

Ginormously annoyed at Merriam-Webster

by | Jul 16, 2007 | culture, reading & writing

I guess it should come as no surprise that I am now officially on the losing end of my years-long battle against the word, ginormous. Trying to curry favor with the post-literate generation, those old bus drivers Merriam and Webster have officially added ginormous to...

In the Queue

by | Jul 15, 2007 | culture, media, reading & writing

In Book Club: The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Picked up just for a bit on the topic of jetlag: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson The best or the worst business book yet, I’m still not sure: the dip by Seth Godin Oddly connected: The Yiddish...

This Week in Stupid

by | Jul 13, 2007 | culture, eating, economics, technology, transportation

We are prempting our regularly-scheduled feature, “This Week in Cheese” to bring you news of powerful successful seemingly intelligent people being just plain stupid with the internet. Cheese will have to wait because apparently stupid will not. Exhibit A:...

Don’t forget not to rob a bank!

by | Jul 12, 2007 | culture, economics, transportation

Here in the Peoples’ Republic of Cambridge, they clean the streets once a month. At least they do during the non-winter months. At least I think they do because there are signs up warning you not to park on certain special days. I’ve never seen them do it,...

Presentation? Bring It On!

by | Jul 8, 2007 | media, working

So I’m working on the slides for my upcoming appearance at Baptie’s Direct Focus marketing conference in San Diego. It’s hard going of course, this will be a tough audience. And you know what happens when the going gets tough… the tough geek...