Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/19/2026
Thoughts Not Best Left Unsaid: • The unspoken land mines awaiting Mayor Mamdani and other socialist office holders at all levels is that no matter how bold they attempt to be in their reforms (or revolution ) they are constrained by the law,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/12/2026
I began collecting stamps when I was 10. I would go to the post office and buy a two- or five-cent stamp and place it in my small album. I was going to collect all the stamps in the world
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/5/2026
This is a story of illnesses and pickup trucks. Bear with me. When we first decided to add a pickup truck to our “fleet” for my wife’s planting, holiday decorations, and dog transport, I knew nothing about them. I couldn’t name
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/28/26
The beauty about collecting is that there's a sense of pursuit for items and great learning in doing so. I collect stamps, and I collect small rocks from places we've visited globally, and matchbooks from restaurants and hotels, (though this
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/21/26
Trigger alert: I’m dealing with excrement here. Hyrox is a competition involving racing and fitness using weights and exercise equipment. As everything in the US, it’s gone to amazing and outlandish reaches. (I’d write about Pickleball but I keep falling down
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/14/26
Only 43% of US households participate in recycling where it’s available, and only 21% of the potential recycling is actually recovered. Bottom line, only 5-9% of residential plastic recycling potential is actually recycled, and the rest remains as plastic waste. (Source: Environmental
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/7/26
Most of us can recall with uncanny accuracy where we were when significant public events took place. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was sitting in a high school history class, and the teacher, against all protocols, hauled in
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/31/26
“What does it matter?” That’s a rather dismissive comment on a low-worth issue. But “How much do you matter?” is a far more important question about your self-worth and esteem. To "matter" is to have significance: to others, to the surroundings,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/24/26
Henry Ford’s first two car companies went bankrupt. R.H. Macy had seven failed businesses before his iconic store. Carrie, Stephen King’s first novel, was rejected 30 times. Michael Jordon was cut from his high school basketball team. Abraham Lincoln failed in business
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/17/26
It’s interesting how everything winds up being part of “culture” these days, as if we’re all graduate students in anthropology. We think of good cultures and bad cultures, or rewarding cultures and toxic cultures. The etymology of “culture” relates to the
