Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/2/25
If we can put people on the moon and try to send them to Mars, why can’t we…
….build a toaster that can toast a bagel in less than a day and a half?
….use retinal scanning to allow citizens to pass through airport security?
….stop sending delivery food (or providing take-out food) in plastic boxes, kept warm in plastic packages, carried in plastic bags, that include plastic utensils (but they do include paper straws)?
….check plane and boat licenses quickly for anyone stopped for DUI in a car?
….create car doors that close themselves (Rolls Royce does this, but it costs a half-million for the rest of the car)?
….end spamming by charging a tenth of a cent per item on mass mailings?
….build airports for passengers and not planes?
….develop a cure for arthritis?
….stop these intrusive interruptions about accepting “cookies”?
….create adjustable seatbelts that accommodate different heights?
….include the rear-view mirror in “memory” settings in cars?
….end polarization by electing “statesmen” and not politicians?
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. —Billy Connolly
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. —Dave Barry
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. —Gene Simmons
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? —Douglas Coupland
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. —Steve Jobs
What happens when you’re meeting your aspirations, when your lifestyle is fabulous, and your prospects are excellent? How much is “enough”? Is there a “retirement”? How do you change (or sell) your business and IP? Are philanthropy, volunteering, and service right for you? Are you able to care for family and important others? What will keep you excited and positive—and “youthful”? We’ll explore this and more over two days of intense discussion and exercises in a small group. We’ll get together in Los Angeles for two 9-to-4 days, June 11 and 12, including a reception. As you know, you’ll learn a lot from your colleagues and peers in that room. $7,500. https://