Dear Steven,
For a long time, one of my best friends was also my mentor and my coach. His name is Tony Blauer and he’s one of the world’s leading close-quarter combatives instructors. I basically grew up in Tony’s home. As an early teen, I studied mar…
There must be something in the air.
While I am no Julien Smith when it comes to reading books, I am doing my best to maintain a high pace of book reading. I recently started digging into Imagine – How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer and it took me ab…
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwid…
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwid…
Read. Read. Read.
Blog posts are great. So are Twitter, online newspapers and magazines and the occasional Podcast, but if you really want to deep-dive into a topic and spend more than a grazing moment with it, you have to read a well-written book abo…
Does your flinch response still protect you?
Tony Blauer is a a world-class close-quarters combatives instructor who now spends his days training law enforcement, military and civilians in his personal defense system (Blauer Tactical Systems) based in…
Here Comes The Weirdoes
On Page 16 of the business book, We Are All Weird, by one of the world’s foremost authorities on business, marketing and leadership, Seth Godin (best-selling author of Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip and countless others), it be…
It was beautiful and perfect sunny day on August 25h, 2010.
I was flying from Montreal to Toronto for a business pitch (ironically, it was the Canadian Cancer Society). I was happy with life – family, business and community were all going along great…
I’m a parent. I’ve got two kids. Life changes when you have kids.
The truth is that life changes when you become an uncle (or an aunt) or when you have kids in your life. Prior to that experience, you tend to see kids screaming or having meltdowns in …
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Dear Seth Godin
Dear Seth,
It was great to see you this week at The Art of Marketing event in Chicago. You’re not only kind with the audience, but you’re kind with your time and it’s always a pleasure to both see you speak live (I tweeted out that, "I could watc…
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