Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/08/2021
I’m signing up for the Covid vaccine as instructed. Walgreens told me online that my existence could not be verified. WELL!! I feel an existential crisis coming on. I…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/22/2021
I watched a professional speaker once who would periodically take a shot of cough syrup and pop a pill. He apologized, but said this is what professionals do, they…
If There Can Be Human Error, There Can Be AI Error
I had to take out my phone and get the directions back to my hotel after dinner last night because the Uber driver was going the wrong way, having received…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/17/2023
In the late 19th Century, the Luddites protested the beginnings of automation in the vast mills because people would lose their jobs. In the late 20th Century the taxi industry protested in…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/16/2023
Generational cohorts tend to think that they’re the best ever, and/or that they’ve inherited a royal mess from their forebears, and/or that they’re somehow unique. Prior generations, as they age,…
Why I Never Yell “Taxi!” Any More
Walking out of a 1,500-person venue at the end of a show and onto the streets of Manhattan where you find your scheduled Uber waiting right on time in the…
Taxi!
I don’t use Uber in London because the taxis are so good—plentiful, roomy, safe, clean, and driven by drivers who know where everything is, never talk on cell phones or…
Kyoto
I’m in Kyoto for a meeting with my Pacific Rim Growth Cycle. The city is slightly over a million people, but quite charming. You can drive along narrow roads bordering…
Episode 29: Why Are We So Threatened?
The reasons for and means to escape going through your life defensively and scared. We’re scared of the wrong things. We get threatened and give in to knee-jerk reactions. Taxi drivers, for example, protested and reacted completely the wrong way when Uber threatened…
Scoot
I’m in Washington, DC and I’m observing the now-ubiquitous, motorized scooters that are all over town. The software is impressive: You use Über or Lyft or someone else, you see…