Blunt But Effective

Posts like this are what make blogs worth reading; it’s too bad we don’t have an equivalent for every industry out there. But for movie making in particular, I think a lot of starry-eyed people out there need to hear your advice and what’s more a lot of would-be book authors need to hear it too. Translated: no one wants to publish your fucking book…

The Truth about “Free Markets”

The biggest underlying truth is that the so-called free market, is not free at all. It never was.

In the United States especially, it is gamed at the highest levels, not only by Pharmaceutical companies but by banks, telecoms, insurance companies and…

[Safe Spaces?] Trigger Warnings? I hate to sound like a grumpy middle-age guy who’s about to tell everyone ‘it used to be better when…’

… but to me those making an uproar over the “Trigger Warning” [and especially the Safe Spaces] concept, have created yet another series of data points which suggest the following theory of…

When considering the news criticism, consider the messenger…

…here in the U.S., there is some conflation between television news reporting organizations, and the larger media organizations to which they belong (e.g. MSNBC is an off-shoot of NBC News, is an off-shoot of NBC the network, is an off-shoot of Comcast (God help…

It is pathetic this is the choice before us. Donald Trump has no business running for the mayor of a small town, let alone President of the United States.

The Republican Party and their “party unity fears,” the two-party system in general, the news media and their perpetuating of the circus, and our system of primaries with…

Very little about Gawker being dead is terrifying.

Whether a billionaire used his money to file lawsuits that ultimately exposed a POS media organization for what it was (a POS), is more or less immaterial. Why? Because lawsuits ≠ automatic victory. The lawsuit(s) have to have some legitimate merit to them in order to pass…

Not trying to be an a-hole here, but my advice to sales people who struggle with it…

…and/or have a hard time making ends meet on their company’s BS commission rules (because they’re almost always BS rules and heavily skewed towards the employer), is this: MOVE ON. Be a better you than the “sales you.”

Being Positive and Working Hard Are Important…

…but not always sufficient, depending upon the goals you choose.

Social Media (and especially marketing gurus) love the “stay positive and you can achieve anything,” mantra, but it’s not always an accurate reflection of…