Turning Point: Part Two – Conceptual

What be the path now? Keep swinging for homeruns, hoping to get lucky with a feature written on spec? Because hey, even suckers eventually draw to that inside straight, long as they keep chasing it down. Or take a leaf from the electron’s notebook: hit it up with some “V” to the “IR,” and march [...]

Turning Point: Part One – Paradigm

Introduction Got slapped with a backhand of information overload the other day. Felt like a shotgun shell of wisdom blasted in my direction – that can happen when you sit down and speak with two people who genuinely care about helping others with their careers – not easy to find. The information can be spliced [...]

Worst Days

There are bad days. Two steps forward, one step back days. Then there are the worst days. One step for man, one mothertrucking leap to square one at escape-velocity speed, a leap straight out of the influence of All Things Good and an ejection towards Never Never land. On the bad days, you’re in over [...]

Anticipate, Anticipate, Anticipate

What do great assistants do? At 24, my father owned his first restaurant. The first Chinese delivery spot in downtown Albany, with stats like quote you’d get off the phone with Lee Fong and the delivery boy was ringing your doorbell unquote. When five p.m. came ‘round, it was sweet ‘n sour and Moo Shu [...]