Help! Should Seth Hire Me?...

Tweet Occasionally, we get the opportunity to be very bold, very audacious, and, well very dumb. Now, it seems that I have one of those opportunities. Let me explain. Seth Godin has been one of my favorite thinkers and writers for years. His writings have influenced a number of decisions that I have made, and his teachings I have applied professionally since launching on my own earlier this year. He is truly one of the great thinkers in the business realm. Yesterday, he offered to mentor a few people in his...

Luck, Ambition, or Destiny...

Tweet Reading this post by Seth today, I thought that the “reviewer” raises a very interesting point about luck in life’s success. In response, I liked Seth’s response: But I can’t imagine how lonely and depressing it would be to view myself as nothing but a pinball, batted around by forces over which I have no influence. Unfortunately, I can’t really agree with either. I simply don’t believe in the randomity nor my ability in life to overcome  odds. It seems that...

Sometimes you can find The Dip in the od...

Tweet This weekend we took the daughter and her cousins to Chuck E. Cheese. The game floor is (as most parents know) split pretty evenly between entertaining video games and ticket gimmick games. After buying some overpriced pizza and the prized tokens, the daughter hit the floor. After realizing that convincing her that video games provided the best value (with all games 1 token rule), I turned my attention to the ticket traps. As I walked around the floor, it seemed that everywhere I turned kids were...