Saturday, December 31, 2011

Flying with Uncle Slappy.

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My wife, younger daughter and I are flying to the Cayman Islands for a week in the sun. Our flight connects through Miami, so we decided to ...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Some thoughts on the past and the future.

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It's the end of the year, the last day of work for most people in what has been a challenging 2011, or 5772, or 1432, or 4706 for a good...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Joseph Farrell, 1935-2011.

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Over the long weekend there was an interesting obituary in "The New York Times" of Joseph Farrell, a market researcher and film pr...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

A walk with Uncle Slappy.

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Uncle Slappy, thank god, is about as spry and active as an 85-year-old can be. Not only is he still as sharp as a tack, he thinks nothing of...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Uncle Slappy gets a gift.

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Uncle Slappy and Aunt Sylvie arrived from Boca last week ostensibly to celebrate Hanukkah with us. Tonight is night three of a promised eigh...
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The Availability Heuristic.

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Right now I'm reading two-time Pultizer-finalist Steven Pinker's new book "The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has De...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A POV. Revised.

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I was asked a brief while ago to lend my considerable heft and gravitas and help guide a pitch. Much of my complaints about meetings, postur...
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Advertising advice from Holden Caulfield.

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As 2011 draws to a close (you could shoot a cannonball through my office right now and not hit any living thing but maybe a rat or two) I st...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A meeting is not a solution.

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In the days before Microsoft Outlook ruled our lives, we did not start our days by printing out a Microsoft-generated schedule of our meetin...

Kim Jong Il. Some memories.

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This happened 25 or 26 years ago, yet I remember it like it happened yesterday. I was sitting with my partner, Craig, in my office. We were ...
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