Simplification is a watchword for my 2016. When writing for customers, clients and even shareholders, I’ll keep George Orwell’s six simple guidelines for writers to follow, as specified in Politics and the English language: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use…
As we move Illumai from a luxury-fasion brand to a brand presenting consumers with a radically new cleansing technology and model, I’m learning more and more about the human microbiome. Our founder, Michael Zasloff, MD, PhD, has been studying the self-healing properties of skin for over 20 years, and a key element of Illumai’s benefit to…
This was adapted from a letter I wrote for Wolfe Glick, my niece Heather’s son and a video presentation I created for some Yale friends from Scroll and Key (aka “CSP”). Let’s start with the video. BTW, that ended with me choking up and admitting how much I loved the man. Now, here is the…
Sync! Anumber of vectors have come through my life recently which I wanted to share with you. I can’t say definitively that “this is the answer,” although I stronglysuspect that it is, and I strong recommend that you consider what Eckhart Tolle is teaching and other people are amplifying. I’m going to link to…
I watched the movie, Secretariat, last night. It was OK. Only OK. Watching the actual horse Secretariat, when he was running in 1973, was much better. This ESPN show from a decade ago really captures the story (in 5 short segments on YouTube). Interviews with all the players — owner, trainer, jockey, others — and…
I looked thru the Super Bowl ads this year and have the following observations: * car companies simply MUST advertise, even at > $3m / :30 seconds. I thought the car commercials were the best * e-trade didn’t disappoint; their latest baby advisor was precious * movie trailers are another high ROI category. There were…
