Ridiculous, Annoying and Embarrassing
When our kids turn 13, we turn ridiculous. How do we handle it?
Life and Death, Humor, Work and Life
humor
Need I say more?
French, Humor
Belle Piece
What do you do when you find yourself a sort of captive audience next to your big boss for a couple of minutes? Be careful about the comments you make as smalltalk!
Humor, Email Flotsam
A Crazy Language
Here is a piece about the weirdness of the English language that I found on the web some twenty years ago.
A Chess Game
About a couple of chess games, and about why somebody’s loss can be as satisfying as your win.
Humor, The Today Paper, Columns
An Office Survival Guide
Pointers in surviving the corporate jungle. Newspaper column in Today on 14 June 2008.
[…] In the unforgiving, dog-eat-dog corporate jungle, you need to be sure of the welcome. More importantly, you need to prove yourself worthy of it. Fear not, I am here to help you through it. And I will gladly accept all credit for your survival, if you care to make it public. But I regret that we (this newspaper, me, our family members, dogs, lawyers and so on) cannot be held responsible for any untoward consequence of applying my suggestions. Come on, you should know better than to base your career on a newspaper column! […]
Sophistication
How to market sophistication, a la francaise! Newspaper column in Today on 5 Jan 2008.
Sophistication is a French invention. The French are masters when it comes to nurturing, and more importantly, selling sophistication.
Money — Love it or Hate it
This concluding part of the philosophy of money (to appear as a column in the May issue of the Wilmott Magazine) shares my private disappointment that whatever I wrote up may not have been as original as I expected it to be. But the concept of money has been around for a long time now, so I should not dwell on it too much.
Money — Why do We Crave it?
Having looked at the how of money in the last post, here is the why of money in this third post in the my mini-series. Why do we want it so bad?
The Ultra Rich
This second post of the mini series based on my upcoming column in the Wilmott Magazine looks at how people make money in a scalable fashion. It was posted earlier in this blog.
Philosophy of Money
Here is another mini series of posts based on an upcoming column of mine in the Wilmott Magazine to appear in their May issue. I have posted similar ideas here before, but this series will put them together, hopefully as a cohesive whole. This first post of the series looks at the unphysical nature of money.