My Substack

Transparency is a word that has come up in several of my conversations with clients in the past week. I’m also reading Dan Ariely’s book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, so questions of honesty and disclosure are really on the brain right…

Have you ever launched a new web site? I have. Six or seven times now. It’s really hard. It plays with your sense of timing. You think it will never be done or ready, right up until the minute it goes live. And then, suddenly, it’s there in the…

I did not enjoy January. It was a month dominated by my conflicting urges to scream as loudly as possible and hide in heartbreaking silence. And that was just when I read the news. It was a month filled with divisiveness and pain. Literally, I had the…

Do you ever feel like life is not happening on time? I do. It manifests as the fear of wasting time—not minutes in the day as much as decades. It includes saying things like, “It’s too late for me to do this,” or “This should have happened…

So . . . I sort of like this video blogging thing (vlogging, I believe, is the actual term). After I get beyond the fact that I look like a doofus, it’s sort of fun to experiment with the medium. I might do it more in 2017, or I might not. We’ll…