New-Age Dilemma

I miss the good old days.
I had a land line and an email address.  I’d get calls to my house and if I missed them, people would leave a message on my answering machine.  When I got home, I’d listen to the messages and call people back.  (Let me interject that I would return communication [...]

Dear CNN: Please Stop Making Me Hate You

1,000 Killings In Mexico Border Town.
CLICK.  I click on this because it is astonishing, appalling, and shocking.  Why then, do I see that the actual webpage of the article has the headline as “12 Slain in Mexico Identified as federal officers”?  I know sexy article titles are the name of the game, but this has [...]

How Do You BREAK THE RULES?

I’m working on breaking the rules lately.  Yes, working on it.  It’s harder for me than it should be.  But Chris Brogan really has put me on a kick to figure this out and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that to succeed I need to create my own game and break the rules.  [...]

Darwin Is (Kind Of) Smart.

Darwin is a cool guy.  I like the idea that the fittest wins:
•    I study longer for my test, so I get a better grade than you.
•    I swim faster than you, so I get more medals than you do.
•    I work harder than you do, so I get more clients than you do.

In terms [...]

Not Everyone Can Be an Entrepreneur

I was speaking to my friend Kim last night.  Kim has three jobs – she works full time at Deloitte, she writes a column for CBS, and she has a very successful blog with three other female writers.  Kim also has an apartment, and a boyfriend.  She seems to have it all.
We were talking about [...]