Our political system has transformed. The change is mostly complete and I don’t think cosmetic changes, whichever ornament tops the tree, matters much beyond stylistic preferences. The Judiciary, Legislative, Executive [ … ]

Have you ever seen that movie, I forget its name… It’s about that kindly white women (or maybe it was a guy) who gets transferred to teach at the ‘tough [ … ]

I was a partisan. Now I am not. I am a Democrat at the exit. DemExit The incomprehensibly privileged treatment of Hillary and her impossibly possible run for President is [ … ]

Disclaimer I voted for Bernie Sanders in the NY primary. Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens [ … ]

We are in the midst of a transformation. It is political, it is business. it is capital and at the end of its last mile is the citizen/consumer. I wrote [ … ]

I am not going to burden this post with political history and whatever theory I can misstate. So lets just stick to the questions: What is a country? What is [ … ]

Disclaimers, trigger alerts and microaggression: I was born and raised in NYC. I am 50 years old. My bio is here. I am a (liberal?) Democrat. I have given, hosted, bundled, been [ … ]

I love sales. I don’t like books about sales. Last month I antagonized a panel discussion. The subject was ‘What do VC’s think of B2B sales?’, moderated by the host [ … ]

Extreme Salesman At a certain age we are, irrevocably, who we are. There are certain superficial remedies that can make a condition more tolerable and I feel I have spent [ … ]

A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have – Timothy Ferriss Before I begin reading any [ … ]