Stumbling on Happiness- Start With Your Brain

I’m reading Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (well, listening to it- I love Audible.com – great for commutes and car rides not taken up by podcasts).  It sounds like another pop psych book, but it’s really about one of my favorite topics- How the brain works.
The lump of matter between our ears can be [...]

The Biography Meme

My friend, Chris Brogan, has started a biography meme, so I thought I’d give it a try so you can learn a bit more about me.
The Thing Most People Know me for is:
Well, here’s a tricky thing. Online, People know me as the producer of the LD Podcast, a podcast about learning and learning [...]

More Thoughts on The Dip- Doing More Than You Think is Possible and Souvenirs

More and more of what Seth Godin said yesterday at his presentation on The Dip keeps surfacing.
He asked everyone to raise their right hands in the air as high as they could.  then he asked us to raise them one inch farther- and guess what- we could.  A clear metaphor that we can all do [...]

Seth Godin- The Dip

Seth Godin came to Philly and gave a great presentation on his new book, The Dip: A little Book That Teaches you When to Quit (And When to Stick).  It was an amazing presentation.  The PowerPoint slides were simply pictures that illustrated his points, in that “a picture’s worth a thousand words” way.  He uses [...]

Thinking Outside The Box

Thinking outside the box is a maxim that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? Some people might say it means breaking rules. I think it means innovation and synergy. It means taking what might appear to be disparate concepts, tossing them together, and seeing what happens. [...]

A Year Ago…

I’m coming up on the 1st anniversary of my podcast. This, coupled with a recent blog post from a friend, referring to a post of his from almost a year ago, gave me pause. What has happened to me in this past year, since becoming involved in new media?
-I have a podcast (The [...]

Rules of the Red Rubber Ball and The Not So Big Life

I went to my favorite bookstore yesterday (Chester County Books) and found two remarkable books: Rules of the Red Rubber Ball and The Not So Big Life. (Link to Amazon here) Red Rubber Ball is a small book that would be easy to overlook on a shelf; the not so big life book attracted [...]

Being Your Own Boss

Many people dream of being their own boss. They have romantic notions about having control and being able to do what they want, when they want. It seems like a wonderful life, being an entrepreneur. Look at Donald Trump. Look at Charles Schwab, or Richard Branson. Why can’t we all [...]

Games People Play

I have always loved watching people. For many years, I was totally mystified by why people did the things they did, and how I got myself into some rather uncomfortable situations, seemingly by accident. After reading “Games People Play- a Handbook of Transactional Analysis” by Eric Berne, MD, these mysterious problems seemed [...]