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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Lots of disturbing, horrifying, and bizarre facts out there about the state of the financial services sector of our economy. One of my all-time favorite writers, Michael Lewis, has a great piece on AIG in Vanity Fair. Much more controversially, Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone posts a searing indictment of uber-bank Goldman Sachs. Almost must [...]
I’m gathering up some of the more interesting articles I’ve found across the web over the past month. I’m not actually sure if it adds up to 2 hours of reading, but it sounded good to me. Why pain? Because reading some of these made my blood boil and my a indignation rage. After avoiding [...]
“…the future of business lay in its ability to manufacture customers as well as products.” That’s a quote from an advertising trade publication from the early 1900′s in referencing mass production and the shift from scarcity to abundance. But it struck me as what’s often missed about advertising. Marketing and advertising has two central components [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I look around every day and what I see often depresses me. It’s what I fear is still to come. Consistency. In the past consistency meant things getting better, people making more money, things thriving. What I fear, and what I see around me are models failing every where around me. What am I talking [...]
This was a sloppy, not-as-coherent-as-should-be post, and so I’ve rewritten it. We have a lot to be pissed off about. Literally trillions of dollars of (in theory) taxpayer money are being given to corporations to “bail them out.” This after years of lush profits, exorbitant bonuses, and executives living like it was the gilded age. [...]
Here’s a laundry list of what’s been bouncing around in my head the past few days. 1) Obama likely ran the best campaign in history. From approaching the campaign with a data-based decision making process, thinking through weakness and strengths and letting this guide a communications/tactical strategy, a consistent (reassuring) image and message to voters, [...]
Romney has a good op-ed that cuts right to it. Here’s another great one. While that’s sad, it at least gives you hope for the future. This just freaks me out. Sigh, this and everything else seems to be going wrong in the country/world. I’d ask for it to end, but these days when I [...]