“Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate,” writes Tom Goodwin, senior vice president of strategy and innovation at Havas Media. “Something interesting is happening,”…

Stop trying to make things perfect. The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

Recently, I visited my insurance agent, whose office is located in a building that used to house a country radio station I worked for back in the 90’s. While I cannot recall the stations call letters, I do remember the several times one or two of the windows in our offices were shattered by a…

As Albert Einstein stated, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” All three outages came one after another: one of the nation’s biggest airlines, its largest financial news publication and its main stock exchange. But were they really ‘glitches’ or were they something more serious? The New York Stock Exchange said their troubles were due…

“From the motif in westerns where the wind blows tumbleweeds through the scene, usually to establish that the place is desolate or empty…a period of dead air or stony, unresponsive silence,” explains Wikipedia about a ‘tumbleweed moment.’ Documents have surfaced from October 2010 about a meeting between Lois Lerner, the Department of Justice and the…

Between 4 p.m. Thursday, July 3, and 3:30 a.m. Monday, July 5, 82 people were shot on the streets of Chicago, with 14 dying. Even with a 30-percent increase in the number of police on the streets gun violence was out of hand, with one illegal handgun being confiscated per hour across the city during…

“For six years the brainiacs at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union have devised one bailout and debt restructuring scheme after another,” writes the Washington Time’s Stephen Moore. “None of them have worked.” Let’s try and make sense of what’s happening in Greece and how it’ll affect the U.S. Greece’s crisis began…

The man arrested for killing Kathryn Steinle, who was out for a stroll with her father along Pier 14 in San Francisco, is an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported five times. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said Francisco Sanchez was arrested and has admitted to the woman’s murder. ICE records show…

Though illegal in Nevada, it began about an hour after sundown, with a few “Lady Finger” firecrackers. The pop-pop-pop was slight and didn’t bother the dogs at all. Soon the M-80’s burst onto the scene, literally. The multiple loud concussions caused the animals to nervously pace up and down the hallway. Then it grew quite,…

It’s been nearly three decades now since I was warned by my friend and mentor, Paul Steward (now passed) that I should be careful that I didn’t get so involved with technology that I forget to go outside and use my imagination. And to think that was long before today’s Internet, truly personal computers, smart-phones…