The guy sitting at the table next to mine at the Fair Trade Coffee House here in Madison had a Dell laptop. He asked me for help. It was his son’s computer, he said, and he couldn’t figure out how to make the wifi work. I looked at the screen for a minute and finally said, “I dunno, I’m a Mac guy.”
“Me too,” he said. We both looked …
I guess I should mention at some point that I’m writing this week from America’s most insanely livable city, Madison, Wisconsin. Above is the view from my table at the Fair Trade Coffee House on State Street, where I’m typing these very words. Here’s a view down State Street toward the Capitol:
I’m in Madison because I’m the …
I don’t usually waste this space commenting on other workplace columnists’ work, but Lisa Belkin’s piece in this Sunday’s New York Times got under my skin. Not that I disagreed with it. Titled “Oh, Joy! Breakfast With the Boss,” she begins,
PLEASE do not invite me to breakfast.
It’s not that I don’t like breakfast. To the
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Stock markets around the world are having another crummy day. It’s always worth reiterating that the plus or minus 2% daily drops we’ve been seeing are nothing compared with the more than 20% decline on Oct. 19, 1987.
But this decline is not the product of some weird hiccup in the workings of financial markets, as was the case in …
Hedge fund manager and poker ace David Einhorn was the speaker at the 17th annual Graham & Dodd breakfast Friday morning. I arrived too late to get a seat, and left early because I was starving, but I did write down this quote:
Regulators are good at cleaning up fraud after the money is gone. Government doesn’t really know what to do
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Never mind the bumbling Seinfeld promo. Let’s talk real racism from a prominent, highly heralded member of society.
Like many of you, I read The Double Helix in school. Like many of you, I haven’t given Dr. James Watson a whole lot of thought since then.
Until now. The legendary scientist, who won the Nobel for his part in discovering …
Thanks to reader Batsheva, here’s that promo we so heatedly discussed earlier this week. Seinfeld begins, “It takes 350 people to make an animated movie. They come from all over the world–sometimes, through an electrified fence.” Take a look, and tell me your reaction:
a) I giggled. Anything Jerry Seinfeld does is giggleable.
b) I sat …
Today’s the big day! The 20th anniversary of the Crash of 1987! We’ve already been deluged with reminiscences and will-it-happen-agains. If you want more, my friend and fellow Acalanes High School graduate Matthew Rees’s recounting in The American is the most thoughtful and exhaustive I’ve seen.
But, uh, will it happen again? Depends …
Yep, that’s him, the universally beloved New York Times columnist and author of the new book The Conscience of a Liberal (not to be confused with The Conscience of a Liberal). Why such a low-quality photo? Well, this is now the third in a series of Curious Capitalist posts featuring lousy cameraphone photos from book parties, and it …
American workers are fat–and it’s our employers’ fault. According to The Marlin Company’s just-released 2007 workplace poll conducted by Harris Interactive,
just 36% of workers in 2004 said their company was “very active” or “somewhat active” in offering information about exercise and healthy eating, 22% fewer than in 2007.
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In India, a lot of people are apparently worked up about the fact that the rupee has appreciated 20% against the dollar over the past five years. No matter that it had lost 85% of its value against the dollar over the previous two decades–the rise in the rupee now is seen as alarming and dangerous for the Indian economy. The folks at …
Following the example of Fox Business Channel, I’ve decided to make this a more aspirational business blog (no, not really, but bear with me for this post). So I thought I’d share the inspiring story of Aaron Perlut, with whom I had breakfast Wednesday. Here’s Aaron, as captured by my cameraphone:
Aaron, as you can see, has a …
