Realizing that Winning Isn’t Part of the Business Game
For most of us who are business owners or work for ourselves, we have been taught that business is like playing a game of Football. The object is to score goals and win. For...
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Black Lives Matter – Really?
Does the term Black Lives Matter grate on your nerves. It does for me, because I think that All Lives Matter, and making it black only is it’s own form of racism.
CSI San Diego
Did the headline get your attention? It may come as a shocker considering that the CSI franchise has shed both the New York and Miami editions of the series, but the theoretical end of...
Jeff Gordon Says It’s His Final Championship Year in NASCAR
I have to use some careful wording when I say this, because Jeff Gordon was careful as well He’s not retiring. “I don’t want to use the R-work” he said. Rather, after a long...
Uber Hits The Skids
Unless you live under a non wifi enabled rock, you pretty much must know of the company called Uber. According to Wikipedia, Uber is an app-based transportation network and taxi company. Basically you use...
The Real Takeaway From Ferguson
What have we learned from Ferguson and other tragedies in America? America has reached a tipping point, but not the one you expect.
Bitcoins Are Not a Ponzi Scheme – sort of
Some say Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. I suggest that it is in a way, but not because of investors – but because of processing.
The Vapid Business Models Of The New Economy
I have been working in the online world in one fashion or another since pretty much before there was an online world. My first business venture with friends was well over 30 years ago,...
F1 House Of Cards Starts to Collapse, Caterham and Marussia Out For Now
Marussia and Caterham are two Formula 1 teams who have spent the last few years circling around at the back of the grid. Like fellow back markers HRT (who died a painful death last...
Signs Society Has Reached a Dangerous Tipping Point
A number of years ago, I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. It’s an interesting book that talk about how things change from being X...
Dave Hester Coming Back to Storage Wars
Here’s a pretty funny story. I wrote a couple of years back about Storage Wars, a show on A&E that sort of quietly preys on the bad economic times. It’s all about people who...
Jerk Tech and Vapid Business Models
IN my daily quest to read all of the internet (I fail badly, as everyone else does) I ran across an interesting opinion piece of Techcrunch. In a story called Stop The JerkTech, Josh...
Is Claiming Fair Use Just a Nice Way to Pirate Stuff?
I read Mike Masnick over at Techdirt on a fairly regular basis, in part because he is an endless source of laughs for me. He has completely convinced himself of a bunch of different...
Whiners and Wind Ups In the New F1
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I am a fan of auto racing (and to an extent motorcycles as well). I have routinely and regularly called out NASCAR for their sleep inducing, near...
