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09TH March 2023
Entertainment - Entrepreneur - Miles of Movies - Mobile - Movies - Reelay - Social - TV Picks - What to Watch
Friends > Algorithms v19.0 Hand of God
Reelay makes you a hero on movie night with picks from friends
27TH February 2023
Business Tricks - Creative problem Solving - Entrepreneur - Family Office - Timeless
Communications is about the Receiver
Communications is about the receiver. Remember that.
19TH February 2023
Creative problem Solving - Entertainment - Geopolitical - Good Story - Legends and tales
Hold my Beer – Wilbur Smith
I can remember the moment I heard about this author. I was in a taxi in Rome 20 years ago. I mentioned to the driver I was headed to Cairo the next day. I asked for a book that could give me some background and the driver snapped into perfect English and said “Wilbur Smith tells an amazing mystery with compelling characters set against the backdrop of actual history, so you can learn better about where I’m going, but not who I’m going to see”… “you have to read River God on the flight”. I did. It was the first time I had read a ripping tale while actually learning history, sort of. It was like Wilbur Smith had heard my request and simply said: Hold my Beer. The Ancient […]
01TH November 2022
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Best British show since Monte Python
I love watching this educated, informed, hilarious political theatre. Question Time with the Prime Minister never gets old, at least not for me. QT is a weekly tradition in British politics that serves as a unique opportunity for the country’s leaders to “face the music” and answer difficult questions from the public, their peers, and the media. This long-standing tradition has become an integral part of the political landscape in the UK, and it provides a valuable platform for the country’s citizens to hold their leaders accountable and get a glimpse into the inner workings of government. I’m amazed Monte Python isn’t listed as the producer. The format of Question Time is simple, yet powerful. The Prime Minister, or a representative from the ruling party, is invited to appear before […]
15TH August 2021
Culture - Entrepreneur - Family and Friends - Geopolitical - Legends and tales - Uncategorized
Five Fantastic Qualities of Russell Kagan
A dear friend and confident passed awhile back named Russell Kagan. I always favored calling him Russ, but one walk down the Croissette in Cannes changed all that as people on every block yelled his name, in every accent known to man… “KAGAN!” It was 1998 and the dot.com boom was in full swing. Media properties began to realize content could go multiple places…. and be sold multiple times. This was manna for Russ, a consummate deal maker/salesman in TV distribution throughout Europe and Asia. Of course everyone flocked to the south of France twice a year to shop for media content and enjoy the lifestyle, but Russ was already there waiting. And that’s where the true magic of Russ’ investment in mankind payed off. He was Kind. Russ didn’t seem to […]
23TH January 2021
Adventure - Creative problem Solving - Family and Friends - Uncategorized
Remember Travel
It’s been a year now. After years and years of miles and miles (pun intended), I’ve spent twelve months pretty much staying put. It wasn’t that bad at all. Because the common thread, at least to me, was curiosity. And curiosity, properly applied, is just as powerful at home as it is halfway across the world. Like most people, I travelled for business, and for pleasure. Often a little of both. But what I liked when I travelled was being out of the comfort zone. Different food. Different languages. Different traffic laws. Funny accents. Different ideas of personal space. Different views of history and current events. It was the ability to adapt, or utter failure to do so, that I found exciting. How to sit on the floor and eat […]
30TH April 2019
Angel Investor - Business Tricks - Family and Friends - Geopolitical - Good Story - Incubator - Legends and tales - Social - Timeless
The Black Tulip…springtime flowers, trends & bubbles. Yeah!
Tulip futures, anyone? It’s tulip season around here; The New York Times had a wonderful story today on Rembrandt and dutch tulips. They’re pretty, but I love them for more than their looks… A very special person to me loves tulips. I do too, and I also love them as a reminder of bubbles- financial ones. Tulips are the first great bubble in modern recorded history, as detailed in the wonderful book called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. It’s an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. It’s still in print, and cited by financial wizards from Bernard Baruch to Michael Lewis. Tulips had quite a run in in the 17th century. As the flowers grew in popularity, professional growers paid […]
13TH April 2019
Business Tricks - Entrepreneur - Timeless - Uncategorized
We are the Factory
I’ve spent the last two years super optimized on one platform- I can’t believe the increased efficiency, and the decreased anxiety of this move. I credit Don Dalrymple. First, about my work: I mentor startup founders, and I am quite active in that role. Which means I have to be able to plug and play into their systems seamlessly. I do not, hell I can not dictate which conference line to use, which product management tool, which crm, etc. I have to adapt, quickly, to whatever they choose. It used to be maddening, but I flipped that; now I enjoy the challenge of learning how they communicate by diving in quickly, so we can get to the real stuff. Which meant my stuff had to be super organized. It wasn’t. […]
29TH March 2019
Baseball - Culture - Good Story - Parenting - Social - Sport - Timeless
Ichiro is Life Well Played.
I like to write about baseball in spring. It reminds me of life and life lessons. Ichiro played a final game in Tokyo this week as the Mariners opened their season in Japan. It was fitting that he got to go out that way, to adoring fans, on the Island where he began his journey. A journey in which he squeezed out of his baseball body and life every ounce that could be squeezed. His dedication and discipline was amazing, but up close, it’s been said he almost looked like a prisoner. He had been playing baseball for 42 of his 45 years. And there’s the rub; he has made no bones about the tortuous training regimen his father forced upon him.. beginning at age three… making him 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 […]
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