I won’t quote you a zillion studies – let’s just accept it as fact that for most businesses, referrals are both the least expensive and most effective source of new business. Referrals are also the best source of leads for job seekers and employers. There are customers and jobs and employees out there – [...]

For the past few years, I’ve had a press pass to SXSW Interactive. This year, I don’t.
I considered shelling out the $400-$500 for a badge, but then I thought about how I had spent my most productive time the past few years, and it was mostly hanging out in the hallways, going to lunch [...]

My mother was a piano bar musician. I grew up in a constant environment of music. On road trips, we actually song show tunes. We played word games…with song lyrics. My mother and I would go back and forth thinking of all the songs we could with, say, the word “flower” in it.
For better [...]

My wife doesn’t understand why I want to watch a couple of hours of Super Bowl pre-game shows today.
“But you don’t follow football.”
“Exactly.”
She’s right – I don’t follow football. I enjoy it, though, when I do watch it, and I enjoy it more when I watch it “in context”.
It’s yet another example of one of [...]