I just ran for Congress, was on reality TV, was once a brand manager, and have worked at various startups. I'm still figuring out what's next...
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Ever have the moments where you see what you’re doing, and then you realize how different it is from “the way it used to be?” I get that feeling a lot. Most recently when I thought about bill paying. One of my memories as a lad is of Mom paying the bills a few times [...]
I’ve now been through my fair-share of interviews. They’re actually a lot of fun. But I’ve also managed to come up with good answers to questions that no one ever asked me. Well, they’re not that good. And in fact, this whole ?’s I wish had been asked is a pretense for a random blog [...]
When you’re on TV you put yourself out there for “public consumption.” And consume the public does! The judgments, leaps of logic, mocking, and undue praise, all of it is really a trip. The beauty of the Internet is that all of these thoughts, “observations,” and judgments get posted for the world to see. But [...]
I don’t have a lot to say about the Virginia Tech tragedy. It’s unspeakably heartbreaking, sick, and sad. And everywhere you turn you’re reminded of this. Round the clock news coverage of today’s ceremony, interviews with loved ones, background on the killer, etc. I don’t want to pile on here. But I did want to [...]
I recently picked up the book a long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. You may have seen it if you go to Starbucks, it’s the book they’ve been promoting for the past month or so. The book, written by Ishmael Beah, is excellent. A pretty quick read at about 200 pages, it holds [...]
I had this grand theory a few years back that our society was descending into cannibalism. While I guess that could be a literal descent into eating our fellow man and woman, but I mean it in a metaphoric way. I’m sure there are better examples, but for our purposes let’s use the companies Costco [...]
It’s raining in Cincinnati, and I’m kind of cranky from typing into a spreadsheet all day (don’t ask). So this is a quick entry. For the past 2 weeks, a very interesting phenomenon has occurred. And by “interesting”, I actually mean “terrible annoying.” When strangers come up to me these days they call me “Sanjaya.” [...]
There are so many cool web businesses out there today, sometimes it’s just silly. Today, I’m talking about personal finance site, Seeking Alpha. It allows individual contributors with informed (or semi-informed) opinions of stocks, the markets, etc to post their positions on the site. They have editors who screen and pick out top-quality content. The [...]
What was my favorite memory from The Apprentice? There were actually quite a few really sweet moments, where I caught myself thinking– is this really happening? But the first time I was asked the question and had to give an answer was on a radio interview a few weeks ago. Once I thought of the [...]
I think Coke Zero has some great ads on TV right now. The idea of Coke suing itself because the taste is close is simple and brilliant. The old guy talking about the capital of Dijibouti being Dijibouti also cracks me. Great job on this campaign. It’s a very simple ad-idea that I think is [...]
Tonight, the Rutgers lady scarlet knights take on the Tennessee volunteers for the Womens B-Ball Championship. This is very exciting. The game starts in 20 minutes. But I’ve already decided that the rutgers’ ladies are champions. Because it doesn’t matter what happens tonight (I have faith they’ll win), they’ve already proven it this season. This [...]
I’ve got a series of thoughts on the Apprentice that discuss a (emotional) reaction to my fellow contestants. I won’t write about any of that stuff for at least a year. Until then it’s tainted by being too close to the event, and so it lacks credibility. But one of the questions I’ve gotten the [...]
Since my quest to become the next Apprentice has (publicly) come to an end, I’ve decided to begin my next quest: to become Batman. To aid me in my goal, I spent some solid time this weekend watching Batman Begins for the 10th or so time. (Another highly productive weekend). In addition to all the [...]