Category: News
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A Question At Dinner & A Visit To Medium
Last week, the CEO of one of the largest companies in America asked me privately how I feel about new media insurgents like BuzzFeed disrupting traditional media models. BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti was sitting right beside me. (Hi, Jonah.) The answer’s easy: Every meaningful insurgent has something to teach us. When disruptive new businesses succeed,…
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In Praise Of People Who Make Us Uncomfortable
People who don’t think like we do… make us uncomfortable. We don’t like to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The more successful we become, the less we’re forced to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The less we’re around people who make us uncomfortable, the more comfortable we become. The more comfortable…
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A Search For Who To Learn From
In the next to last poem he ever wrote, A Thanksgiving, W.H. Auden pays homage to the voices without whom, he reckons, “I couldn’t have managed / even my weakest of lines.” It’s quite a list: – Hardy, Thomas and Frost, for inspiring his early adolescent verse – Yeats and Graves for a young lover, discovering…
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Heroes In The Off-Hours
Creatures of Times Square, they’re just like us. They count their cash… they check the mirror… they experience moments of sadness… they comfort one another… they adjust themselves… they facetime with friends… and then they head home…
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The Sneaker Life
(Artist unknown, London, 2013)
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What Life Insurance Meant To McDonald’s, JC Penney & Stanford
It’s that weird time of year when people seem to make financial plans. Including life insurance? Guess so, but is there really any time of year when people think about life insurance? Life insurance isn’t exactly top of mind; USA Today calls it “the most ignored in fianncial planning.” Dare you to try and find a life insurance salesman under the…
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Happy Holidays
I had some fun making a video for my team as a warm-up for our holiday party, tonight. I’m so proud of everyone at Scratch for their incredible work this year — our biggest and best ever. This represents the first time I’ve ever been turned into a Belgian action star from the 90’s…
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Figurative Sidewalk Stain
(Artist unknown, Brooklyn, 2013)
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New Kicks
Thank you to my friends at Converse for these objects of beauty on my birthday!
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Knowing Your Place
Long ago, in what seems like another life, a colleague much senior to me (in age, experience and level) summoned me to his office on a Friday afternoon for a “chat.” Sounded ominous, and it was. I’d been working for the (unnamed) company for some time, and had achieved some early success. Enough success that I wasn’t just feeling confident, I was feeling unstoppable. …