Survival

The revelations about the NSA spying on American citizens came as a surprise to most people, but the data that corporations and big business collect on each and every one…

It’s interesting to track trends in technology by analyzing the latest in industry buzz-phrases. After the World Wide Web was firmly established as a business tool, industry consultants started spinning…

Here’s one for you: an Irishman walks into a pub and orders his Guinness with an olive on the side. After finishing each drink, he places the olive in a…

Here are two possible portraits of memoirists. He’s around 65, or older.  He sports a beard, smokes a pipe, and has a PhD in English Literature. He’s very opinionated, and…

My wife and I were watching a movie not long ago, and Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry was being chased by bad guys through the streets of San Francisco. “Why…

Here’s a great idea — we’ll have your family meet with a high-powered salesman when they’re utterly distraught. The salesman will attempt to up-sell on all sorts of customized items,…

Imagine living in a place where there is no government, no regulation, no taxation, and certainly no objections to anything that will alter your mind. It’s a place beyond the…

Since the advent of cell phones and the mobile Internet, workers have been freed from the confines of an office — and work in coffee shops, hotel business centers, airport…

If you’re in any career field where your job is at all repetitive, there’s probably a robot coming to take that job from you. There’s been a lot of chatter…

You’ve encountered bad leaders in the work place.  You’ve seen the boss’s son — the character who, just because he was born on third base, suffers from the illusion that…