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…
I told a friend recently that I wanted to “move to the cloud” in 2012. He asked, “What does that mean?” It means dematerializing life as much as possible. Fewer possessions. Fewer claims. Less “stuff” to worry about. And that is a good thing. I’m more interested in having access than I am in ownership. …
This is an awesome song from Coldplay’s new Album, Mylo Xyloto It’s Us Against The World Oh morning come bursting, the clouds, Amen. Lift off this blindfold, let me see again And bring back the water, let your ships roll in. In my heart she left a hole The tightrope that I’m walking just sways…
When I was leading Voice-tel (1991-1995), we opened a number of operations in Australia and New Zealand as part of an international expansion effort. I flew to Sydney in early February of 1995 to meet with the management there for the first time. A week later, Debi, Pat and Tyler flew in during winter vacation…
The Redpaths had let us use the guest house in Ft. Myers Beach for a couple of the fall months as a sort of honeymoon present. The small, one-bedroom cottage was a great place to relax, cook, sort out our domestic roles, discuss the future we wanted (which, in retrospect SHOULD have been done earlier…
Growing up, I got to experience something that seems to have receded from modern life, if not disappeared — the Factory Tour. I was reminded of factory tours when Debi invited me to go see the TCHO Factory Tour on Pier 17 in San Francisco a few months back. It was interesting to sit on…
