Entrepreneur, Explorer, Angel.
Sometimes all at Once.
11TH March 2019
Adventure - Geopolitical - Good Story - Legends and tales - Timeless - Uncategorized
Hold my beer #6- for Woman’s Day- Freddie Oversteegen
Freddie vs. the Nazis “Life is 10% what happens, and 90% what you do about it” … Art Spencer would tell me that every day of my life, and among Stoics this seems to be the popular mantra these days as well. No hold-my-beer series would be complete without at least one undercover operative fighting for what they believed right at the time, and what in time, proved so right. All while having no control over the war, only what she did to react to it… Freddie Oversteegen was born in Haarlem, near Amsterdam on September 6, 1925.. then, in her teens, when the Nazi’s rolled into town, Freddie, her older sister Truus and their friend Hannie Schaft, blew up bridges and railway tracks with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children out […]
- Hold my beer #6- for Woman’s Day- Freddie Oversteegen
- March 11, 2019
- Working from Home has its rewards.
- March 07, 2019
- Update on the Devils Lettuce
- March 07, 2019
- Hold my beer #6- for Woman’s Day- Freddie Oversteegen
- March 11, 2019
- Working from Home has its rewards.
- March 07, 2019
- Update on the Devils Lettuce
- March 07, 2019
07TH March 2019
AppTaris - Baseball - Creative problem Solving - Entrepreneurs - Family and Friends - Legends and tales - Uncategorized
Working from Home has its rewards.
Working from Home today… LOL I was working in Tampa last week, visiting a dear friend and successful founder (same guy). Naturally, we chose to meet at the Yankee game. Double bonus- I got to see my hometown Pirates play. Two things struck me as worth mentioning (the score was not one of them). It’s amazing to me how much Hope there is at the beginning. Spring training is a great example of that. Pitchers and catchers report in mid-March, fully expecting to make the team and to make a difference. Teams are there a week or two later, and scrimmages and spring games begin shortly after- probably too shortly thereafter. The weather is great, players smile and joke around. Veterans grab gloves and hats for rookies stranded at second and run them […]
Update on the Devils Lettuce
The NY Times had a recent feature on the family behind Charlotte’s Web. Yes, a family story, about the family business. It’s truly amazing how legitimized the industry is becoming, while Opioids have become the pain management whipping boy – this Samantha Bee takedown is epic, and hilarious. I’ve watched from a distance as the cannabis market has growth it’s way across the US and Canada. Well, actually, Canada is totally covered at this point. And it looks like the [...]
Supreme Criteria for Decisions
I’ve been giving thought to how- and why- I make decisions, especially the hard ones. I really subscribe to the Scott Adams approach, which he called “systems thinking.” This basically states, among other things, that systems are more powerful than goals… and as a Steven Covey/ Seven Habits guy that almost hurts. If you want to reduce stress (as a goal), it’s the systems you use that will propel you there: (variations of diet, exercise, rest, recovery, mediation, etc.). W [...]
13TH February 2019
Race to the Bottom - Social - Timely - Uncategorized
Perdue Perdone
I’m sure there’s more to the story but Samantha Bee somehow makes it funny as she eviscerates Perdue and their owners for “branded, institutionalized drug dealing” . The You-Tube segment is painful to watch, perhaps because there are so many uncomfortable facts therein. Not the least of which, 130 people per day have died of addiction to Oxycontin. 130 overdoses per day. The marketing was silent on this, at best. As Samantha says …Even drug dealers will say “don’t take too much of this lady… I can tell by your Blazer… that you cannot handle this! No one is blameless I suspect. Maybe this is one step that helps clean it up. And somehow she made it funny.
