A Minute with Alan® — Catastrophizing
April 11th, 2024 You need to isolate negatives and generalize positives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB9NZsAEXHQ
80% Ready: Move
When you're 80% ready, move. You can fine-tune after that. You'll never be 100% ready, and that final 20% represents most of your labor and is seldom ever appreciated by a reader, an audience, or a client.
A Minute with Alan® — Brevity
April 10th, 2024 Tell people what they need to know and not everything you know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sggJw_maugI
Blinded By the Light
What has more beauty and more invigoration, watching deer leaping through the woods, waves pounding a shore, a magnificent painting or piece of music, a newborn child
A Minute with Alan® — Cybertruck
April 9th, 2024 Have you seen the new Tesla Cybertruck? It’s ugly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scPebRjqzxM
The Moon Is Overhyped
Watching all those people staring at the sky in huge groups yesterday to watch the moon pass in front of the sun can't be a scene all that different from people in 2,000 b.c. acting the same way. I'd guess
A Minute with Alan® — Royce and Bear
April 8th, 2024 Maybe it’s all about bluster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Gkx6jHrbk
To GOAT or not to GOAT?
GOAT has come to stand for "greatest of all time." I don't think there's any doubt that Tom Brady is the greatest professional football quarterback in history. I think that for a six-year period, Sandy Koufax was the greatest pitcher
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/08/2024
We took the train for an overnight in New York City solely to have dinner in our favorite Italian restaurant (Il Tinello) and then to see one of our all-time favorite singers, the troubadour of our times, Billy Joel. It