Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

When we moved 1,000 miles, from Wisconsin to Connecticut, we really made two mistakes: The first was not moving to North Carolina instead and the second was buying a home too quickly. This was in the later Summer of 2006, things were still pretty good with the economy and we had just turned a […]

Several months back, in The Edge of Scarcity, I tried to define my “process” for targeting rare, out-of-print music DVDs, CDs and books, the tools I use and explained my rationale; as thinly logical as it was. Over these past months, I can’t help but wonder about the eventual death of physical media for books, […]

I always get nervous whenever my wife starts looking at my amazon wish list with the intent of buying me something for Christmas or my damned birthday. It’s not that I don’t want the things on my lengthy list (9 pages now), it’s that I have apparently created a complex system for what I […]

Many years ago I picked up on a barely humorous saying about “infinite spare time”. Someone would say “can you take a look at this in your infinite spare time.” It was an acknowledgment that we realize that our time is short, and we are all busy, but whatever “it” was, it was […]

Within the past few days a variety of events with friends and family have happened to get me thinking seriously about the impact we have within one another’s lives. In three different scenarios with people close to me, its become apparent that so many of us are completely oblivious to the idea of legacy or […]

When we moved 1,000 miles from Southeastern Wisconsin to Central Connecticut in the midst of the Summer of 2006, we were really clueless about WHERE we were going. And aside from one friend on my side and an Uncle on my wife’s side, the two of us were pretty much on our own in […]

Yesterday a friend jokingly commended me for supporting a local business. As someone who has spent over 20 years developing franchise companies and replicable business systems, it probably would be shocking to most who care, just how much time I spend avoiding franchises. Especially food franchises.
While I would like to convince myself that I […]

This past week I took the train into NYC to attend my very first meetup for the Augmented Reality New York (ARNY). Due to a rain/traffic combo, I missed the earlier express train from New Haven and arrived at the Porter Novelli office on Varick Street just after the first presentation, a game demo, […]

Over the past 30 days I’ve been watching repeatedly the recent Ironman movie as well as Batman Begins and the Dark Knight. As I’ve written in the past, I am very intrigued by the idea of singular super-empowerment: the idea that one person can transform themselves into something greater, for good or for evil, […]