Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ — 09/14/2022
Viridity: Green, fresh. “The farm had a viridity that made the supermarket seem like a horrible place to shop.”
The Best Thing About Social Media Is That You’re Allowed to Be Boring
Has LinkedIn become Facebook in disguise? If you took platitudes and others' quotes off Facebook, would there be anything left? If you were denied Facebook for a week, would your life be better or worse? If people were prohibited from making harsh and
A Minute With Alan™ — Governor of Providence
September 13th, 2022 Maybe on the corrupt scale he doesn't finish so bad for a politician. https://youtu.be/NPMDVXj5E58
Royal “Privilege”
And already it starts: The New York Times reported this morning that Prince Charles has been using off-shore accounts and other marginal practices to build a "billion dollar business." Everyone is public life gets a bullseye on them courtesy of
A Minute With Alan™ — Bentley’s Stick
September 12th, 2022 I thought I was helping him out, but I wasn't. He was doing this for me. https://youtu.be/pNSll3PNHVM
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/12/2022
Every time we go to the beach (or, in New Jersey, the “shore”), adults and kids alike are digging in the sand. Some people simply dig holes (This is their idea of a vacation?) but the ones who really intrigue
Voting for the Hell of It
You can't make this up. The mayor or Providence, Jorge Elorza, has claimed that there are problems with the primary voting scheduled for tomorrow, and that he has reason to believe the counts won't be right. Some paper ballots apparently were
Marshaling Your Strengths
Notre Dame, the #8 football team in the country before yesterday, lost to Marshall University in a tectonic upset. Marshall had been a 14 point underdog, and was playing at Notre Dame's home field. Marshall would make over a million dollars
Hello? Anyone here?
I'll tell you one sign of the changing times that I see from a certain perspective in my own journey: Earlier in my life I enjoyed working hard, and learning, and producing in order to stand out, apart from the
A Minute With Alan™ — What American People Need
September 9th, 2022 What the American people need is to be treated as adults. https://youtu.be/qkghL3ZW7zE