Find, follow your passion for a life worth living
I believe something is officially a passion when you find yourself actually doing it instead of something else less enjoyable that should take priority and be done first—like a sink full of dirty...
View ArticleHow I spent my Apocalypse Eve
When I logged in to Facebook briefly this evening I noticed they now have a little widget for privacy shortcuts. The term something something Facebook and privacy are not two words that should be used...
View ArticleCombating the malaise of year-end emptiness
facebook engancha (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The presents are freshly undone not yet a week and many of us are feeling the tug of introspection. A good deal of the populace goes into a funk around this...
View ArticleSnow problem, I’m taking the day off
Marissa Mayer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m sure a lot of Yahoo employees are upset about their chief Marissa Mayer taking away their work from home privileges. Some would say they should be happy to...
View ArticleBetter than Seinfeld: A blog almost about nothing
Primitive Word Processor (Photo credit: DaleC/@flickrfumes) I heard someone complaining the other day that their life was so busy they didn’t have time to waste time on the Internet anymore and it...
View ArticleWho’ll be my 400th?
English: Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mickey Cochrane (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Four hundred still sounds like a lot to me. It represents a milestone number of things as well as being an...
View Article“For Professionals Going Places”
Image via CrunchBase I’m glad LinkedIn decided to update its mobile app for iPhone. It needed some freshening up. The new app starts up with a picture of a young girl walking in front of a young man...
View ArticleMulti-taskers endangered as procrastinators thrive
The Procrastinator (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The multi-tasker is dead. Long live he or she who wears many hats. Deadlines do not consistently accommodate chronic procrastinators. A tight schedule...
View ArticleSitting On A Chair In The Sky
Boeing 747-400 flight deck (with notes) (Photo credit: KOBUS 2C) With headline writing inspiration props to Louis C.K… The drive to the airport was mostly a silent one. “What are you going to do when...
View ArticleSBP Easily Best, Most Powerful Product Messaging Strategy
The eight-striper wordmark of IBM, the letters “IBM” in City Medium typeface. Introduced in 1967. Trademarked by International Business Machines Corporation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The layoffs at...
View ArticleNew Yahoo Mail Treats Customers to Old Advertising Tricks
Yahoo Arch (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is still the land of the free last time I checked. But Yahoo forcing its new email down the throat of its user base beginning Tuesday, July 9, is another...
View Article‘No comment’ doesn’t cut it anymore
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The power structures of large corporations need to change. People notice the obvious...
View ArticleYou never know who you’re talking to
English: Ear. Good for listening. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Or who’s listening to what you’re saying. This is because the biggest breaks that we get in life are often by accident. Timing is...
View ArticleThe mysterious case of the teasing donate button and more things I think
Beautiful Sky (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m not ready for fall break to be over but each time I come down here to work I see the piles of books and papers I must sort through, organize and get ready...
View ArticleTime to reopen ‘dislike’ debate
Italiano: versione ombreggiata e ingrandita del simboletto “like” di FB (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The world of social media is shiny and bright where everyone’s teeth are pearly white and even their...
View ArticleReboot Friday
Thinking-ape (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Seems like it’s been a long week for a lot of people. But it’s Friday and time to forget about the stresses of work days gone by, suck it up one more day and then...
View ArticleAt least we have the stock market
Stock Market Fortune Cookie (Photo credit: bransorem) I am not going to mention anything about those things going on in that place where we are supposed to be getting some representation for all of our...
View ArticleThe random road to fruition
English: Actor, entrepreneur Suzanne Somers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Can Vermont cheddar be from any place other than Vermont? Do you still get the paper? If you are someone who lives with ordered...
View ArticleGet paid, get yours: The greater good as afterthought
My LinkedIn network, visualized (Photo credit: For Inspiration Only) You still have a better chance of becoming rich in the United States than you do, say, in Russia. This is because, although the...
View ArticleWe felt one another one time
He took another sip of bourbon and thought aloud about how he had come to the place in life that he was in. It wasn’t easy being old. He was in a home. Looking for friends, yet still wanting to know...
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