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Markets is markets

30. July 2008

This is ostensibly a business blog, so let me make one business-related observation from the field. A couple days ago, my son and I visited the central market in Ayacucho, Peru. Great fun, markets, because you get a vivid snapshot of the town you're in. Most markets I've seen tend to group vendors of like [...]

Chances of survival

14. July 2008

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Job security. Got some? Got enough? If you're wondering about your prospects in the current economy, you might check out the Job Security Score. It's a questionnaire that claims to tell you whether you should rest easy or revise your resume. I have no idea how accurate the score might be. I tried to complete [...]

Punching the clock

8. July 2008

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When you work for an employer, it's usually a pretty straightforward contract. You trade 40 or so hours of your week in exchange for a salary and some sprinkles. What happens during those hours is between you and your boss. But when you cut the tethers of employment and became a free agent, what's the [...]

Meet the new boss

30. June 2008

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The boss you love to hate. See all the Dilbert comics at Dilbert.com. When you go into business for yourself, even though it sure looks and feels like you've become free and unfettered, the fact is, you still have a boss. I don't mean your clients, because in fact, your clients are not your bosses. [...]

In praise of whimsy

12. June 2008

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How serendipitous. A friend of mine sent an article that contained a link to the very story I had been wracking my brain to recall for some time. It's about a college student who drops out, but chooses to follow his whimsy and takes the odd class in calligraphy. He never finishes college. Years later, [...]

Making change happen

11. June 2008

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The first picture that turned up in a Google images search of "meatloaf." Turns out it's a vegan meatloaf by Field Roast Grain Meat Co. Go figure. Mark Bittman, food writer at the NYT, just wrote a column about how to reduce your meat intake. With the rising price of oil directly and indirectly pushing [...]

Hitting the reset button

7. June 2008

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We recently decided to give our business a reboot. As any Windows user knows, a reboot is sometimes necessary to clean out the memory and bring the system running back to peak performance. Not that our business hasn't been successful and all that. It has. But perhaps symptomatic of a deeper funk, we've been struggling [...]

Domino effect

15. March 2008

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Uploaded by Jayfive Eric at the local Domino's just placed my pizza in the oven. At 8:10, to be precise. How do I know? Because at Domino's website, I can track my pizza using their nifty Pizza Tracker feature. It tells me the pizza's stage of preparation and exactly who's working on it. A pause [...]

The other bully pulpit

8. January 2008

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I'll bet there are at least two PR departments breaking a sweat after Boing Boing (#5 blog on the planet with traffic in the bajillions) posted a couple of corporate takedowns today. One concerned Midwest airlines' hamfisted handling of a customer complaint. The other, a bit weightier: Siemens' profitable relationship with the Nazis during the [...]

Kids rule. No, really.

31. December 2007

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While we adults were geeking out about the potential of Second Life, the kids had their own virtual-world revolution. Brooks Barnes reports in NYT that Webkinz (by toymaker Ganz) had 6 million logins in November. I can attest personally that most of those sessions were probably longer than one hour and ended only with lots [...]

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