5-year-old reveals secret to getting anything you want from anyone
Holiday toy advertising is brutal for a father. One dad loves watching TV with his daughter. What he didn’t like were the predatory toy ads specifically engineered to influence children. They worked too, because after every single ad, his daughter jumped up and pulled on …
Worst pickup line ever:
“Hi, will you marry me?”
When I was single, I noticed an interesting phenomenon in San Francisco. I didn’t think much of it at first, but it stuck after I noticed it a few more times.
Every now and then, I’d see an attractive girl at the bar all by …
You can’t help anyone until you leave your world behind
If people are like gazelles in the savanna, your business is merely a blade of grass in their journey of life.
Put simply: No one cares about you as much as you do.
Why? Because they don’t live in your world. They live in their …
Never persuade – find people who want to believe instead
Have you seen this video? (turn your speakers up)
The name of the singer in the video with the gentle ukulele and hauntingly beautiful voice is Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole. He passed away at the age of 38 in 1997. He died in the middle of …
19 reasons why you must never compete on price
It can be very tempting to want to use price discounting to increase sales. It’s an obvious lever to pull, but it’s also a very dangerous one. Here are 18 reasons why you should never compete on price…
Low price comes from economies of scale …
14 reasons to stop feeling guilty about money
For the record, I don’t believe in “social justice” (but that’s a story for another time). However, I feel the need to challenge what you feel about money. If you have no issues with money, just skip this page.
But if you’re a good person …
How to win in this age of anarchy
“Technology may have some benefits for a smart brain, but no capacity to produce compassion” — Dalai Lama
Sometime in the 21st century, we crossed a tipping point and a revolution happened: Technology became democratized.
Technology that once belonged exclusively to governments and rich corporations …
