Ever feel like the deck was stacked against you, that your boss or wife or boyfriend had somehow made it impossible for you to succeed? In the Army, we called that being set up for failure. It spro...

Seth wrote a nice post called “I’ve got your back.” It reminded me instantly of two very different posts I’ve written that are about the same thing: needing a ranger buddy and character. What do al...

More on the bad effects of dilution of effort – 10000 hour rule. What’s my answer? Pick something and put years into it? Give up? Or find the space in-between?

Peter Shankman is on a quest to move himself to 10% bodyfat this year. He’s already thinking about his remodeling his diet with some serious changes. In switching my diet, I’ve tried to make only o...

Does this translate into: I want to hire someone good looking who will wear skimpy clothing around the office and be available weekends/evenings to fool around? WTF? This post was eventually flagge...

Chris Brogan wrote a different sort of New Year’s resolution post, focusing on three words as major themes for the year. Everyone else seems torn between making resolutions and saying that resoluti...

The NYT can’t understand corporate finance [link to come; post underway], but they can do headlines: “Hijacker Overpowered on Norway-Turkey Flight.” I guess we did all learn from the heroes on Unit...