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Friday, August 27th, 2010In the Charles’s list of life rules, I have one called “allow endings”. I stole most of these from @jack at twitter, but I agree with them wholeheartedly. I posted them way back when as a direct challenge to myself, of course. What I’ve realized in selling as long as I have is that people [...]
Volunteering
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010As to the earlier post about rebuilding, I decided the other week that my expertise in bureaucracy and red tape needs to move to another square. I have no experience in the military but my uncle died @19 in non-war service, my grandfather was wounded in WWI, and my father served with dignity for 14 [...]
Terranea
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Went to this place right before the 4th. Interesting. A museum to the go-go “aughts” that we all lived through recently. Big nice resort slung along the craggy coast of Palos Verdes near what Angelinos call “the south bay”. Word has it that one of the big guns that left Starwood has the $500M note [...]
TED Talks: Chip Conley
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I love TED Talks and could probably spend two weeks watching all of them. I ran across this really good and interesting talk Chip Conley gives on deciding what “counts” and what to count and what in life is worth the focus. Boy, this is a good time for me to consider the subject. How [...]
10 Steps to my dream airline.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010The Donald tried it. Sir Richard is trying it. I’d like to try too. My mother-in-law came into town last weekend and we went through the whole wheelchair at the gate, Southwest bit. Now, I like Southwest and I don’t agree that it’s like cattle. I could care less. I think you have to respect [...]
New Haircuts
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Sorry I’ve been off the ball lately — working hard like a boy should. I was getting in the car today in a part of LA that is 15 miles from home. I had been thinking that I’d call my hair stylist on the way home and try to “sneak in”. She hates it when [...]
Hillstone opens another success story in Beverly Hills
Sunday, May 30th, 2010Try it. You’ll like it. You might love it. http://bit.ly/dta8Qw
Be Nice
Friday, May 14th, 2010Peter Shankman {thanks for the quick Jamba meeting this week Peter!} posts a reminder that we can all stop and treat everyone in our day-to-day a little bit better. I agree, it has become a “me me” world. I’m one of those me’s. I’m not immune. I sent this out by email earlier and it’s funny how much interest [...]
Food trucks LA: True niche
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010My family experienced the Slice Truck in LA again yesterday. I follow them on Twitter and we’ve chased them down twice. It’s pretty good. It’s one of those things that make you ask yourself repeatedly: “How come I never did this in college?” Slice of Pizza. Next to USC all day. Delivery to dorms and [...]
The end of the playlist: @kcrw eclectic24
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The end of the playlist is here. At least in my world. I’ve been testing eclectic 24 on @kcrw through apple tv and other means and it (literally) rocks. Now, with any party, I’m going to just hit the radio stream and my whole house is full of continuous great music. Very little talk. No [...]
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