Sunday, February 21, 2010
First in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
A few years back a bunch of advertising-displaced friends reunited for a whitewater rafting trip. I came from New York. Three others came from Boston. One lived in Vegas. And we all descended on my former partner in Chattanooga, who was to be our river [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Do something interesting. Do something worth talking about. Do something worth sharing.
That’s how you stay alive, vibrant, and employed (if you want to).
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The business of big advertising is concentrated in a handful of cities. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston, etc. That’s where the jobs are (or used to be). Sure, there are fantastic agencies in smaller markets (Richmond, Portland, etc.). Either way if you want a shot at the big leagues, you may have to [...]
Several people pointed me to this article in the Boston Sunday Globe about the future of the workplace. And I’m glad they did.
You should absolutely read the piece in its entirety, but here’s an excerpt that summarizes it nicely:
The middle of the 20th century was the age of the great employer: Mainstream success was a [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
My last full time job was located in a mall. You literally had to walk through a food court and past a couple of shoe stores to get to the elevator.
After a while, you forgot the absurdity of this fact. You’d walk by the cell phone accessories kiosk like it was a vendor on 34th [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
During times of stress, people have many different ways to comfort themselves. It can be food, alcohol, sweets, cigarettes, exercise (for the righteous), or in my case, science fiction movies. Ahhhh, nothing calms the nerves and takes away the worry like a completely fictional story. So lately, I have been taking a nice long drag [...]
Sunday, December 13, 2009
We don’t have expensive taste. Other than perhaps another bathroom (four people sharing a single bath doesn’t do much for one’s sense of privacy), we’ve got everything we need.
We don’t want millions. We want the absence of worry. Money-wise, it would just be really nice if every first of the month wasn’t a fingers-crossed-athon.
So two [...]
I just read an article in the Boston Globe Magazine by Kara Baskin about how nauseatingly happy everyone on Facebook is, or pretending to be. It’s one big “Look at how cute my puppy is! See how awesomely psyched we are!” The truth is, no one wants to put up the bad stuff. Who wants [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
When You Lose Your Job, Persistence Can Land You An Even Better One
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Recently, Tom Matlack invited me to write a featured essay for The Good Men Project website. If you haven’t heard about it yet, The Good Men Project is a book, DVD, web site, and touring event that is trying to shed a light on modern manhood. I just started reading the book yesterday, and so [...]
