I get a newsletter from Philip Humbert and in one awhile back he asks some good questions:

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest but ducks when revolvers are thrown at him?

What is the speed of darkness?

Can you cry underwater?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Why […]

Unless I get totally off the grid, it is tough for me to relax and not think of business on vacation. For better or worse I have closely integrated my business and personal life. But Beth Silver at Doubet Consulting writes a great article with suggestions on taking […]

I am a sucker for a great movie line. AFI put together their favorite 100 …they include many of mine!

"I’m walking here! I’m walking here!" from Midnight Cowboy

"You can’t handle the truth!" from A Few Good Men

"If you build it, he will come." from Field of Dreams

"One morning I shot an elephant in my […]

As reported in Laptop Magazine this month, an HP sponsored study if 1,000 adults at Kings College in London found that constant emailing or text messaging reduced intelligence by 10 IQ points. The study says (as we all know) that the constant interruption inhibits our ability to concentrate even more than smoking pot!

I do not often go "off the grid". What I mean is a total black out of all forms of communication. No cell phone, voice mail, text messaging, email, internet, or letters. I probably do this once a year for a week just to see what it is like.

This past week, while on the beach […]

I loved this headline from yesterday.

"An attempt to erect the world’s largest Popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier. The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that […]