This piece by my oft-linked-to friend Brian Mickelthwait is one of the best blog posts I have read in a long time. It is about the particular brilliance and importance of our mutual friend Guido Fawkes, who is - as I mentioned only hours ago - making British prime minister Gordon Brown’s life very difficult […]
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Well, one of the best in memory, that’s for sure. First of all, the weather was gorgeous and warm!
Friend of Qik Pat Phelan is visiting from Ireland, and joined me and the rest of the Qik marketing team for a wonderful homemade Indian dinner at the home of Qik co-founder Bhaskar. We had a blast, […]
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This is good enough to print out and keep in one’s pocket (if one ever has occasion to feel sorry for oneself, as many people do):
Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our […]
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The one choice I don’t have is whether or not I have it. But beyond that my choices are infinite. How I approach it is up to me. It has a lot to do with - and this is hard for people to understand - accepting it. And that doesn’t mean being resigned or not […]
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Another book that I hugely enjoyed reading on my iPhone Kindle app during my trip to Paris was Second Chances, compiled by Gary Stromberg. It’s a collection of stories from top business executives and other high fliers - including former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, former president of CBS Records Walter Yetnikoff, […]
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Today I’m especially loving this picture of Paul Staines, aka the blogger Guido Fawkes, that I took in London more than two years ago:
Paul has brought the British Government to its knees this morning. I understand that the story he happily handed to the press on a silver platter (for free) is all over the […]
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I hate airports, security theater, apathetic and unhelpful airport staff, and selfish travelers who hog all the hold space for crap they should have checked or stuck under their seat in the first place.
But I do love to travel, and to fly. I’m still waiting for that beaming technology, Scotty.
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Seriously, this is awesome.
via Adriana
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I bought a ticket to Start-up Weekend but, after a draining travel and work schedule over the previous week, just didn’t have the energy to attend and contribute in any meaningful way. Hillary and her son went and had a blast, and my Qik colleague Daniel Brusilovsky has written a blog post about the start-up […]
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Todd Kashdan, in a happiness-themed Q&A with my friend Gretchen Rubin:
Pain and failure are not barriers to happiness. What prevents us from moving in the direction of what we care about and achieving a happy, meaningful existence is our unwillingness to be in contact with anxious thoughts and feelings, situations that caused us tension in […]
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We’ve all heard (haven’t we?) that holding onto a resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other guy to die. But I like how Malachy McCourt puts it, too:
They say living well is the best revenge but I believe forgiveness is better because then the fuckers don’t know what to do with it. […]
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Still catching up on reading from my RSS feeds. Here we go - spot the common theme!
Former England rugby player Brian Moore:
It is perfectly possible for inertia to be beneficial and an improvement, if the alternative is poorer. It is the same fallacy as the claim of the current Government concerning the current economic crisis, […]
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How delightfully French (even at more than $7 per can of water from the hotel minibar).
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Oh, man, do I love this video. Thanks to Chris Yeh for tweeting the link.
Proof, if I needed it, that my childhood distrust of Phil Donohue was completely warranted.
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