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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A few years ago I was obsessed with manufacturing. While I’m not an expert, I have read thousands of pages on the topic and hundreds of articles. In my campaign for Congress, I tried to make jobs, and as a result, manufacturing a cornerstone. All that to say, that this is something I find interesting [...]
For the past year, probably the most oft-asked question has been “Will you ever run for office again?” My answer is somewhere between “no” and “probably not.” To be fair, this was my answer throughout the campaign — the only way I knew to not become a politician, would be…well, to not…become a politician. I [...]
When you’re talking about presidents, it should be declarative. They should own things. Think ‘Bush’s War’ for Iraq. Or, I guess, as I’ve now read ‘Obama’s War’ for Afghanistan. So, I’m declarative here. Obama’s failure. I’ve wanted to write this for a long time. It really built up over 2010. As my feelings grew stronger, [...]
I have a lot to write about in the coming weeks. Especially around this past election. Given that no matter the subject, we each have our own different perspective because it is informed by our specific experiences. Since all of my commentary and thoughts are driven by my specific campaign, I should probably explain how [...]
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 [...]
Con’t… 6) Dream on a shelf — ESPN.com OTL. Interesting read on the insides of big money sport. More interesting as a human interest story than financial sports. 7) What makes us happy? The Atlantic. A look at a study that’s been going on for *72* years of 268 men at Harvard college. Probes the [...]
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 [...]
At one point in 2004-2005 I was tearing through a book or two a week. In retrospect, it was a phenomenal time. I’d stay in for hours at a time on a weeknight or weekend and just read. Since my earliest memories, reading has been one of my favorite experiences. For a while, I remember [...]
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 [...]
Detroit. Mitch Albom is a terrific writer. Think Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven. Albom has a great way to make characters real, settings come to life, and emotions feel at home within you. He’s a storyteller in the truest sense. Today, I read his latest in Sports Illustrated called [...]
We’ll likely here more and more from Bobby Jindal. He’s the Indian-American governor of Louisiana with a very impressive background. Rhodes Scholar, President of the U of L system before 30 and governor at 36. He’s a Republican. He’s a great marketer: “Bubbas for Bobby” was his campaign to get white southern males, a constituency [...]
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, [...]
Being overseas for the election was a strange, but interesting experience. Everywhere I turned in India (and in Dubai), people wanted to talk to me about “Obama.” Literally, for some of the people that I met, “Obama” was one of their few words of English. That, and I guess you could add “change” to that [...]
for so many reasons. Must read new yorker on obama, ohio, and the election. Yeah, I call a lot “must read”. Sorry.