Sunday, February 28, 2016



"Get So good They Can't Ignore You"

A quote from Steve Martin and an excellent book by Cal Newport. He explains how your passion isn’t something out there waiting for you to discover it.  It’s more like something you realize after you have been doing it for a while. After you get good at it and can see that it fits.

Saturday, February 27, 2016


LEARNING TO RIDE

Never tried blogging before. I’m like a kid learning to ride a bike. Don’t know, no confidence, running on faith, wobbling all over the place. Just  keep going. Just keep going. If nothing else, a reader might get a few laughs. I’ll get better. I hope.

Friday, February 26, 2016

                                          
           
                             Exploding


Can't come up with a blog post?  Creation is exploding all around us.  Make note of it.  Tell me.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

                

 What's Your Passion?

You have to do it, use it, before you can identify it. Do something.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

From Seth Godin.

Worth thinking about

Worth thinking about.

That's one of the most important lists you can have. The list of things worth thinking about.

We live in the age of information surplus, when there are answers and shortcuts and highlights and notes and summaries for everything. But not nearly enough time to even be aware of them.

The key question isn't, "what's the answer?"

The key question is, "what's the question?

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Fear Pays

"As long as there is fear in the world the U.S.A. will prosper .The greater the fear, the more the U.S will prosper."

Told to me about 40 years ago by a very bright friend of mine recently out of grad school at Columbia by way of Stanford. He explained further. "When things get shaky, people want to put their money behind the thickest walls. The thickest walls in the world are around the United States. People will put their money here to avoid losing it. They won't be concerned about maximizing their earnings. We get richer, the rest of the world gets poorer. All we have to do is make sure the rest of the world stays scared."

I had never thought about it, but it made perfect sense immediately. The protection racket. Second oldest profession in the world. "Give us money or, you know, something might happen to your store." Or your kids, or your wife, or your wealth. "No,no. We aren't putting a gun to your head. We're putting a gun to the bad guy's head. Because if we don't, HE will put a gun to your head."