Do you know the “velvet rope” analogy in sales? First time I came across it was years ago, in an old edition of Michael Port’s Book Yourself Solid. It’s not about getting past somebody’s velvet rope to make a sale. […]
(This is a repost of an entry I submitted at GoneReading.com — visit the site and help do some good for worldwide literacy!) Ask people what first comes to mind when they think of Los Angeles, and there’s a good […]
There were people who predicted, half-jokingly, half-disdainfully, how the digital era would result in a sort of New Familial Intimacy — the kind conducted through cell phones and laptops, Facebook and IM. An intimacy that wasn’t intimate at all. And […]
“You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.” — Walt Disney So what would Uncle Walt think about the state of the movies nowadays? Have we infantilized the culture to the point that […]
Better writers have touched on baseball, in ways more serene and profound than I ever could manage. But I think there are special elegies that should go out to minor league baseball, in this day and age. You sit there […]