I don’t tolerate bullshit well. I tend to close doors on dishonest people. It’s ironic, actually, since I once made a living by being dishonest. If you call that a living. But eventually I realized that the only thing I actually had in the world was my word. Sure, this sounds like something out of an episode of Bonanza, but it’s true. Not until I was stripped down, nay, leveled down to bare nothing, did I realize that I was…
I was recently sick to my stomach and ordered to the ER by my doctor. While in triage, they ran my credit card for my copay. After discovering how sick I was, and once my payment cleared, they admitted me into the hospital – where I spent the next 36 hours. I received the bill last week. The total cost was $18,000 – give or take a few bucks. I spent two nights in the hospital. Had one CT scan…
For about a year now, I’ve had to ignore all the marketing gurus and their posts about QR codes. At best, these scannable ads are, well, scannable ads. There was once a little company called StickyBits that let you scan any barcode to see what consumers thought about a product. It was a brilliant concept driven by consumer input – it just had a bad business plan. QR codes are generated by brands – so the only thing you see…
Seth Godin. If you’re involved in marketing or digital media today, you no doubt know who he is. And if so, then you can likely identify him in a picture. In a recent blog post by one of our (Boxman Studios) customers at the Google Garage made me sit up. Here’s the picture: Who is that guy on the left? Seth Godin. Or at least it sure looks like him. No where in the blog post does it say that…
In a year when we elect a US President, everyone is focused on the economy. The thinking is that if we can fix the economy, our nation will be better again. That if we all have money in our bank accounts, our problems will be solved. That if the numbers are working in our favor, then we’re good to go. It’s easy to think that numbers drive our economy, but they don’t. I’ve known a couple of really wealthy people…
According to site statistics, you spend an average of 3 minutes and 22 seconds to read my posts. Usually, these posts are between 400 and 700 words. I stick to this length because this is about all the attention I can muster to think about a thing. I also hate to read. Note, not ‘hate to learn,’ but hate to read. I’m way too nervous to sit still for very long. My posts usually take about 20 minutes to write…
