What’s Your Story?
In a lifetime, how many opportunities have you missed to listen to a potential friend, or at least a possible interesting acquaintance, because you stopped at “how you doing today?” This thought became real to me recently while listening to a marvelous book, Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi. It
Respect the Streak
Baseball fans love statistics because they tend to make the daily events seem more rational and orderly. We humans crave order and predictability, even when
A Father’s Day Baseball Story
John Arguello is a favorite writer of mine, these days. He covers the Chicago Cubs intensively and works with a stable of writers and commenters
The Color of Law
It’s been 150 years since the end of the Civil War and 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act. However we still
It’s Tough to be the King
Jeff Immelt, head of General Electric Corporation, is getting the boot as head of the company. Travis Kalanick is being asked to step aside as
The “What if” Question
I have spent my entire business life identifying price anomalies and taking advantage of them to make money. “Buy low, sell high” is my secular
Tools of Justice
It’s the American Horatio Alger story. Invent the next Xerox machine and get rich. Or get screwed. Dan Brown was a smart Irish kid from