Can We Please Just Do The Obvious?
For anyone who’s managed to miss the news for the past 6 months, the southeast US is in a 100-year drought. As we are wont to do in such cases, we have ignored this for the past several years until now...
View ArticleRobert Plant Apparently Did License Cadillac
This is old news by now and my source is not impeccable, but I asked the question a few days ago, “Who sold the rights for commercial use of Led Zeppelin’s music to Cadillac?” Apparently, Robert Plant...
View ArticleThe Trouble is the West
An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the November issue of Reason magazine. My favorite quote is her closing statement: But I don’t even think that the trouble is Islam. The trouble is the West,...
View ArticleThe 4-Hour Work Week
Got a new book over the holidays – “The 4-hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferris. One of my consulting colleagues recommended it a few weeks ago as being a good source for tips and ideas for some of the...
View ArticlePaying For Outsourcing
Outsourcing my burdensome tasks is very appealing, and I have already begun to make inquiries about a couple of specific tasks I want done. But even though the Indo-Asian outsource firms tend to have...
View ArticleThe Low Information Diet
Hi. I’m Terry Frazier and I am an information junkie. One of the principles of Tim Ferris’ 4–hour Workweek is the low information diet. Ferris’ opinion is that success requires massive output – massive...
View ArticleJoining a Diet Club
My friend Matt has been following my low information diet plans. Today he announced that he reduced his RSS feeds to the point he could read them all in 20 minutes. Congratulations, Matt. I have gotten...
View ArticleUpdate on Outsourcing
I’ve been in a string of cheap hotels and crowded, delayed airplanes since Sunday night with little time or energy for working on the computer. I’m still recovering from some Zombie Death version of...
View ArticleLow Information Diet Update
As part of my plan to simplify and eliminate the clutter in my life I decided to go on an info diet a few weeks ago. I dropped dozens of feeds from my reader, dropped almost all internet group...
View ArticleGetting the Office in Order
As I mentioned in last week’s outsourcing update, my Virtual Assistant made an appointment for me with a local staffing service. Thursday afternoon Kristie from Elite Staffing came to my office and we...
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