Posts in category Spin
When Your Employer Becomes Big Brothe...
The most current example of government surveillance of citizens is John McCain’s cybersecurity SECURE IT Act. The ACLU’s Michelle Richardson has said of the bill, “This is a privacy nightmare that will eventually result in the military substantially monitoring the domestic, civilian Internet.”
What is new is employers [...]
Manipulation – The Enemy of Sma...
When I launched this blog it was an extension of my unrealistic interest in wiping the power of manipulative people off of the face of the Earth. (Hey, everyone needs a super power, right?)
There’s no place for people who knowingly lie, manipulate and take advantage of others. (Except maybe careers as attorneys, politicians or owners [...]
Why Your Company Should be Made of Wi...
Transparency has become a buzzword as the social media revolution has disrupted the old ways of doing business. It is no longer acceptable to hide business activities behind walls by concealing company operations and keeping employees and customers apart. Under that obscure model, business leaders cannot expect to attain people who will [...]
Weekend at Lucy’s
Yesterday at about noon my business partner, David Oxstein, said, “It’s raining in LA all weekend, do you want to go to Palm Springs and work out of The Lucy House instead?
The Lucy House is where Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would stay every weekend. After a week of shooting the I Love Lucy TV show they would pack up the kids an [...]
What’s Your Influence Worth?
There was a New York Times article a week or so ago profiling a guy who made $300 in a hour by tweeting about M&Ms. Since I waited to write this, I can’t find the article, but he has was averaging $3,000 a week doing promotions like this.
So is it wrong to get paid to tweet? This is an interesting question for me right now because [...]
Magical Thinking Can Kill You: 2 Dead...
Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ‘self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ will never be the [...]


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