From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Self Indulgent Dad Moment

August 30, 2008

Happy Holiday Weekend.
Please indulge me for the next 20 seconds. Will discovered daddy had a movie camera built into his computer this morning, and he was mesmerized … we went through his entire songbook, but this will be the first music video released.

Not bad for a kid who was pretty much not talking just a [...]

Read the full article →

Obama's Speechwriter

August 29, 2008

Wrote earlier about the wonder that filled me when I heard Obama’s copy from his speech last night in Denver. Wondered who wrote it.
My partner and buddy Michele Miller pointed me toward a Times article about the boy wonder who writes with Obama. He’s 27. Sigh.
Oh, and it looks like he writes on [...]

Read the full article →

Historic Prose

August 29, 2008

Watching last night, I couldn’t help but think about the speechwriter(s).
They sat at a keyboard much like yours or mine. Was it written on a Mac? A PC? A notebook or desktop?
Did (s)he listen to music? What? Did they wake up at 2 in the morning to write a particularly inspiried section? Which section?
What didn’t [...]

Read the full article →

A Cool Ad.

August 28, 2008

Okay, so I put this together this morning, and I really like it. I usually nit-pick my own work to death, but I like the portal in the image, and I like how much gets said in only about a dozen words.
It speaks to multiple personality types and buying preferences. It paints a strong first [...]

Read the full article →

Perpetual Workplace Motion

August 27, 2008

A particle will stay at rest or continue at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force. ~ A simplification of Newton’s First Law of Motion
I’ve experienced a unique phenomenon over the past many days, and it’s not strictly the ability to spell phenonmenon with confidence and without pausing at the keyboard.
I’ve [...]

Read the full article →

A Dozen Moments of Zen

August 24, 2008

Happy Sunday.
I’ve been a big fan of Leo’s blog for more than a year. As he cautions, it’s not something you use as heavy reading - else it overwhelms you. He’s codified his most popular posts and categories into one steaming, smells-like-fresh-chocolate-chip-cookies batch.
My advice echoes his own: pick one of the most popular posts that [...]

Read the full article →

Are You This Flexible?

August 23, 2008

This month, the trend-setting state of Utah established flex hours for their employees. This morning, the Washington Post has a good article about its momentum as a movement in business.
Such scheduling arrangements, in which employees work longer hours but
fewer days, share jobs or stagger start or quitting times, have been a
part of the U.S. workplace [...]

Read the full article →

The Email Improvement Checklist

August 21, 2008

Don’t tell my wife, but I pine for Emma. She’s a fantastically human email marketing company that was just named one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing companies in America.
Two reasons why:

This helpful little checklist they sent out today to anyone who wanted to communicate more effectively via email, and
The use of words like “pantsuit.”

It’s [...]

Read the full article →

Dude. Nice bike.

August 20, 2008

So, I’m minding my own business - sitting in a corner of my client’s restaurant’s bar - writing his next email thing about catering.
I look up. David has a new bike … hanging from his bar.
Now, the place is chock with framed whosits and whatsits … no bike. Until now. And it’s a biggun.
I sat [...]

Read the full article →

Worthy of Your Time

August 19, 2008

I like Merlin Mann a lot. He thinks and writes smartly about efficiently using your time, and he’s funny.
He’s created a new presentation about placing more value on your own time and attention, and he makes his slides and brief notes available for you to review.
Won’t take up much of your time at all. Valuable, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries