This is not a man with a blog.
You know what’s fascinating? Leadership Profiles have been around a long time in print form, and now on the web, but they’re hopelessly going to be out of date. With an independent party trying to collect data, like this profile of one of my colleague Scott LaGanga, it will never be as accurate as his…
Traditional journalism has a business model problem. As these institutions die in some form, so does the style of reporting that we have long lauded as "journalism" and what fills it does not even approach fair or balance reporting. There's no sense wringing your hands over it, it's done. But maybe it's good in the…
So at the beginning of September 2008 I asked a poker player who had never coached before to be my coach. The rate we agreed upon is in line with what I've seen others coaching, in fact a little less. Since he's never coached before, we sort of made it up as we went along.…
I joined this meme over on Facebook by posting this list, and thought it was worth repeating it here. 25 things about me Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 10:02pm 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. mu*…
First, a new baby: And now, a screen shot of a $0.25/$0.50 LIMIT Texas Hold'em game I was in this weekend online. Look carefully at the player in seat 3. He's sitting on a stack of $10,000+ chips. Now he can't possibly lose it all at once, but I found this hilarious. He sat down…
FEBRUARY 5, 2009 (SAN FRANCISCO) – Last week saw the arrival of Rivaleah Linda Imber Safdar. Born in her parents' bed with mother, father, brother, two midwives and three friends in attendance, she has brought her family great joy. At 7 pounds 4 ounces delivered in a posterior position, her mother was heard to say,…
So my coach and I were talking about some different ways of doing board analysis, and he suggested I compute "the hands that beat me" on every street. Getting significantly better at board analysis is important as I move up limits from the microstakes I've been playing. While I'll continue to use poker bonuses on…
On Inauguration Day one of my oldest friends asked on Facebook quite innocently "[I] just read that this inauguration cost 170 MILLION dollars… Wow… Don't care who's going in to office… did we really need to spend that much at this time?" With all the respect that's due someone I've known for 20+ years, I…
God knows I’m a complete punter when it comes to building anything in my workshop, but I’m even worse at growing things, so when there’s work to be done on the house or in the yard, I’m the guy that uses the power tool to build things or (intentionally) kill things. Given that our yard…
So I’ve been to some crazy places in this world (Cuba without a visa, Northwest Frontier of Pakistan with minimal bodyguards) but I’ve got nothing on a war correspondant like Alex Perry. His book, “Falling Off The Edge: Travels Through The Dark Heart Of Globalization” is not the anti-globalization screed you might expect it to…