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rickColosimo / June 5, 2015
I recently finished the first draft for my book on the nine principles of war, reformulated and recast as they should be applied to business. My friend Tom read the draft to provide some initial co...
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rickColosimo / March 4, 2014
Thinking about my kids’ world. It’s already different from mine. Answering machines and voicemail came when I was in grade school and are almost dead. Long distance isn’t. It’s easier than ever to ...
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rickColosimo / January 19, 2014
The reality of being a single dad is even more complicated than this because all the lines are about half-an-inch wide (to scale), so it’s really an enormous mass of grey. OTOH, maybe that means I ...
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rickColosimo / October 7, 2013
This article on increasing mortality rates, i.e., decreased lifespan, among certain American women is a good one to for econ and math professors to give to their stats students as a quiz. “Identify...
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rickColosimo / August 9, 2013
On Pearl Harbor Day last December, I came across someone who suggested that America needed something to wake us up and get us back on our feet. The reference was to Pearl Harbor Day and how it brou...
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rickColosimo / May 20, 2013
Someone asked me recently about being a dad, and here was my response. I think my main goal is to help them really internalize the trick of finding the upside instead of the downside, with a health...
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rickColosimo / April 30, 2013
I know Bill Caldwell. Worked for him. He convinced me, unintentionally I’m sure, to leave the Army. I know nothing about what he did, didn’t, should, or shouldn’t have done with all this stuff in t...
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rickColosimo / February 28, 2013
Everything you do as a business speaks to your customers. I got an email from Quicken the other day saying that they were shutting off certain services, including downloading info from banks. (How ...
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rickColosimo / January 22, 2013
The NYT headline, “Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised,” blows this out of proportion. Wired’s article “Scientists Discover How to Identify People From ‘Anonymous’ Genomes” is onl...
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rickColosimo / January 15, 2013
If you want people to comment, say on a lifehacker post about going paperless, and you require sign-ins for commenting, don’t trash their comments when they forget a password. Among the least inter...
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rickColosimo / January 7, 2013
File this under “incentives work, so think about them before you unleash the unintended consequences.” Alternatively, simplified mental models fail to capture the richness of actual reality and are...
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rickColosimo / January 4, 2013
I wrote this back in August 2012. It needed to sit a while to take the edge off. I couldn’t even read it to edit it. -Rick Recognizing it: I just watched the Seattle Children’s Hospital “Stronger” ...
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rickColosimo / January 4, 2013
We’re all afraid of things. Some real – heart attacks; some distant – terrorists; some vague – the lizard brain’s resistance to change; some too real and terrible to ever really be acknowledged. Th...
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rickColosimo / September 1, 2012
Congratulations go to sittercity.com today for web form usability. I’ve been filling out a lot of forms lately, and the ones that annoy me are those that seek city, state, and zip. Maybe they haven...
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rickColosimo / July 24, 2012
In this post on how great architects get stuff built, (reminiscent of the Real Artists Ship quote from Steve Jobs and Seth’s take on shipping), Seth remarks that brilliant can’t long co-exist with ...
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rickColosimo / July 1, 2012
This summary on “Is Stupidity Contagious?” connects with a whole series of stupidity posts on that blog (I can’t quite bring myself to type it — since I mostly can’t remember which of the syllables...
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rickColosimo / June 14, 2012
Sometimes the WSJ depresses me. I read it for sensible, no BS news and financial analysis, and then their opinion page goes off the deep end with this sort of crap. I almost don’t want to link to t...
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rickColosimo / March 1, 2012
I just read this insanely depressing quote from Ted Turner (yes, *that* Ted Turner, the BILLIONAIRE). He’s describing his three marriages ending in divorce, after the article discusses Ted’s weekly...
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rickColosimo / October 17, 2011
What is the weight of all the stuff you’re carrying around?
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rickColosimo / August 4, 2011
Social proof aside, someone told me about the plot of “Just Go With It”: Adam Sandler makes up an ex-wife. As a single dad, I can say that that might be about as smart/attractive as saying I used t...
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rickColosimo / August 4, 2011
Tom said: What you need is someone who is interesting, dynamic, can handle your craziness, and is not psycho. That’s a tall order. This will be on the test. 🙂
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rickColosimo / June 8, 2011
Here’s the Netflix blurb for a movie called “The Switch:” Still single and increasingly attuned to the cacophony of her biological clock, 40-something Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) decides that if she ...
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rickColosimo / June 2, 2011
Item 1 on this list of deathbed regrets is living the life you want, and there’s a great quote that refers to the idea of being “fully committed.” I’ve not done a great job of that over the past se...
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rickColosimo / May 22, 2011
I was at the Go The Distance bike event, shortly after conquering the crappy feelings that glommed on to last year’s event. This year, I participated and biked 50 miles. It was literally my sixth r...
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rickColosimo / April 8, 2011
Sometimes, life is too fatalistic for my tastes. It’s a fundamentally anti-American thing to say that we are too molded by the past, that our destinies are rough-hewn before we have control of our ...
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rickColosimo / March 13, 2011
Having complained about non-lawyers giving legal advice, I’ll briefly rant about non-finance people giving investment advice. A quote I won’t attribute to the author: Common advice for personal fin...
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rickColosimo / February 18, 2011
I recently saw a question asking “Which is worse: flag burning or book burning?” My answer is definitely books, as in not even close for me. My thoughts on the flag go back to some Army experiences...
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rickColosimo / January 25, 2011
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...
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rickColosimo / January 24, 2011
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...
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rickColosimo / January 6, 2011
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...
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rickColosimo / December 15, 2010
I saw a posting today for an inhouse commercial counsel at Verizon Wireless. This would be an interesting job, lots of commercial contracts, some domain specificity, and it’s not terribly far from ...
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rickColosimo / June 4, 2009
I will not claim to speak for any parents other than me, not even my ex-wife. There is little doubt that part of the quick rejection of vaccine causation for Dylan’s regressive ASD onset was my ex’...
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