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Update your user experience…or die!
Your survival could depend on it! Are you up to date with your user experience? I have been coveting my friend's iPhone. It is true I have both a Palm Pilot and a Blackberry but the iPhone is getting more and more attractive. Not just because it has got a nice user...
Once again, we penalize people who make smart money decisions
It's amazing. I always found it odd when applying for a mortgage that banks considered income, but not asset base. If I have a bunch of money and invest in an investment that's growing in value by 33% per year but not throwing off income, they won't consider that in...
Have you seen “The Story of Stuff?”
Check out http://www.TheStoryOfStuff.com. It's a bit heavy-handed in places, but if you watch it with an open mind, she makes some really good points about consumer culture. The planned obsolescence bit, while obvious, was something I'd never really thought about in...
Happy or Successful? Which will you pursue?
On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and college and I employed to get where we are today. We assumed that success would bring happiness, and as far I can tell, we were wrong. It turns out that the two...
When is password security not security?
In a wondrous attempt to increase security, more and more vendors are now requiring me to choose passwords of many characters with mixed case, numbers and punctuation. My bank does one better, where I have five different question/answer combinations they ask, then...
Local business defines roles, responsibilities!
I just had a post go up on the Huffington Post's 236.com humor blog. Check out my satirical article on a local business defining its roles and responsibilities.
Combatting vote fraud… Really cool system!
The New York Times reported today that a system has been developed that would let us avoid vote fraud by engaging the populace in double-checking the vote. It's a very elegant system, developed at MIT. Interestingly, it was developed by Ron Rivest, who also developed...
Marshall Goldsmith on Peer Coaching (part 2)
Marshall Goldsmith is an amazing executive coach. He has worked with several Fortune 500 CEOs and is currently a best-selling author (#1 on Amazon.com in the Leading People category). He has developed a couple of peer coaching techniques that will let you and any...
What if you had $1 billion to spend on a Presidential campaign?
I was reading reports that Michael Bloomberg was rumored to announce his candidacy for President. A friend mentioned that he had reportedly said he would spend up to $1 billion to get elected (no sources were cited). I was thinking: what would you do if you were going...