could vs should.

For the past few years the one thought that has never been far from mind is my “could vs should” debate. Essentially, I think we’ve become a society that has stopped asking if we “should” do something and instead default to if we “could” do it. “Can we get away with it?” has become our […]

a better stimulus plan?

I meant to post on this last week when Friedman’s op-ed in the NYT hit, Start Up the Risk-Takers. Friedman, not surprisingly, beats up on the US autos among others, and says that instead of giving them more money, we should instead turn to venture capital. He proposes giving the top VC’s (top 20%) a […]

religion vs spirituality.

I’ve long monitored the discussion between being “religious” or “spiritual.” Of late, I’ve heard some fatigue with people classifying themselves as “spiritual.” I suspect this has to do with how nebulous a term “spiritual” is and with how very many people are now identifying as such. This is a great article in TIME magazine (actually […]

that feeling is despair.

There’s that thing going around. It’s a feeling. It’s being transmitted by the TV, the newspaper headlines, magazine covers, etc. In fact, thanks to our new digital connectedness, it’s transmitted by those who matter to us via Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, IM updates, blogs, etc. What’s being transmitted is bad news and what makes even more […]

the reporting business.

Time magazine writes an article this week on “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Their conclusion? Micropayments. Basically, allow people to pay a small fee, like 5-25 cents for every article they read. The dominant platform for this doesn’t really exist since Paypal charges fees too large to make this viable. I used to think that […]

the rebirth of the long.

Up on the Tom Peters site there’s a good note on the “Generation Gap.” The idea is that his generation was handed a functioning business world with solid fundamentals, and that they took it created a world of stilts, which the current generation has now been bequeathed. Today those stilts are being knocked down and […]