The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist was way back in the early 1980’s. Actually, one slight correction… The last time I regularly wore a watch on my wrist, prior to the past six months, had been way back in the early 1980’s. On the other hand (no pun intended), for about the past six months or so, I’ve been regularly sporting an old fashioned, mechanically operated, analog timepiece of some sort or the other on my wrist, and have been doing so for reasons of attention and concentration and –– oh, by the way –– so I’ll also know what the time is. Allow me to put all of this into context… If you...

With so much silliness coming out of Silicon Valley these days (and if you don’t believe me, just Google the words “Yo app”) it’s refreshing –– hell, it puts my faith back in humanity –– to hear of tech-centric companies that are actually trying to do some amount of good in this world. Don’t get me wrong: I love technology, and I am a 100% certifiable geek.  I mean, jeez’…  I actually learned how to program in BASIC, FORTRAN, and PASCAL waaaaaaay back in the late 1970’s on a Digital Corporation PDP-11, where I used punch cards to tickle and tease all 512 KiloBytes of that computer’s...

At some point during the next few weeks, I plan on heading out of the city for a day or two, holing myself up in some small lil’ podunk town, and spending a good amount of time deep diving into this past year’s accomplishments (and non-accomplishments), all as part of personal annual review. It’s standard practice in the business world to have year-end reviews of employees, strategies, practices, and financials –– and my plan is to do something analogous for myself, where I examine the areas of my business life that worked and didn’t work, my personal life that worked and didn’t work, my creative life that...