I have a love/hate relationship with snobbery. Love to indulge in it, hate it when others do, particularly against things that I like. I was thinking about it today in terms of brands and how people love to hate things that are popular. Henceforth I devised a couple of hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1: As the popularity of [...]
I try to blog daily, but I have been silent for the last week due to a nasty case of food poisoning that I got last weekend. I spent the next few days mostly sleeping (to spare you the details) and am just now really getting back into the swing of things. I’ve sent a [...]
Alexis and I spent Thanksgiving Day with a group of friends that we’ve known since we moved to San Francisco. A friend of ours drove up from central California and joined us, and two of the couples have children. Surrounded by friends, eating good food, relaxing…one of the best days I’ve had in awhile. We [...]
I had an office until a few months ago (that’s a story for another day). I’ve looked a little since then, but small and cheap offices are rare in my new neighborhood. I was getting a little tired of working out of coffee shops, but today I finally nabbed a sweet new office like 5 [...]
My wonderful wife got me a membership to the California Academy of Sciences for my birthday, which is officially reopening this weekend after being under construction for the last several years. It’s one of the ten largest natural history museums in the world and houses the Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium, a four-story rainforest exhibit, penguin [...]
The “War on Terror” is a farce. It’s a marketing ploy, designed to get people fired up and inspired. But when you really evaluate it, it means nothing.
Let me be clear. Terrorism is evil, and should not be tolerated. We shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists and we shouldn’t hesitate to hunt them down and bring them [...]
Note: there are many types of consultants, but I’m talking specifically about management consultants
When I was younger, I thought that a career in management consulting would be really cool. You get to work with different types of companies, you get to travel, you get to fix problems, etc. Sure, the hours are crappy, but like [...]
When you freelance for awhile, you start to hear the same lines over and over from people trying to hire you. These are some of my favorites, and I’ve learned to just take them with a grain of salt. They’re not always untrue, but they’re cliche enough that I raise my eyebrow a bit when [...]
Warning: this post is personal in nature and relatively useless unless you like dogs. So if you’re looking for action-oriented info or something other than entertainment, this isn’t the post for you
About five weeks ago, my wife and I welcomed two new members to our family: two beagle puppies named Barkley and Bianca. [...]