We’re moving home this week. As we all know this experience is supposed to be the third worst after bereavement and divorce, but my mood has been lightened today by a few glimpses 0f lunacy. First I saw across the …
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Financial syphilis: “Give me your old, your gullible, your desperate” – Short of saying ‘this is all a pack of lies’ what could beat this?
If you’re a connoisseur of the great rip-off, “The League of Power” is always good for a laugh. I’ve been following their stuff since they first started promising me freedom by the weekend. Today they say “Life could be very …
Read MoreNew book and course coming up – plus a good joke that’s unfair to Americans
I have some new stuff for you soon – a new book, no less, which is really not new at all. (Yes: all marketers ARE liars). Plus a new course, which you may like. First, though, what is unfair to …
Read MoreTrue or false? And some thoughts on writing
“Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others” – Francis Bacon, who many thought was the “real” Shakespeare. No wonder. Among my favourite quotations is Polonius’ advice to his son Laertes in Hamlet: “This above all: …
Read MoreElevator talk: a Spanish omelette, advice from Napoleon – and what I know about you
I got three sets of questions sent to me today. One was from a U.S. professor who is writing a worryingly comprehensive book about writing to sell. One was from a client in Asia who wanted to know how often …
Read MoreHere’s another fine selection of messes I’ve got myself in – but you can get me out
I have always had a strong fellow-feeling for Stan Laurel, as: 1. He was like me a Lancashire man. 2. He was always being blamed for getting himself and his colleague into fine messes. The difference between him and me …
Read MoreA lesson in bad writing – and Boris Johnson’s folly
Here’s the heading to the kind of White Paper that deserves to be carefully torn into squares and stuck in an outside toilet: “Leveraging Rapid Process Application DevelopmentDeployment, Adoption and Use for Business Value” This was followed by the opening …
Read MoreGeorge Clooney, Jamie Oliver, Oprah Winfrey – and my butterfly mind
How interesting to compare useless sluts like Paris Hilton with people like George Clooney. He puts his fame to good use and is off to Sudan to try and see what is up with the elections being run by the …
Read MoreWhen I was 16 … and a mystery
I went to France to live en famille and learn the language. My timing was a bit off. I arrived on the day of a general strike. Not good, as we – my French exchange partner Gerard Thaler and I …
Read MoreNothing changes
My beloved just bought me a gigantic book of old New Yorker cartoons. This one dates back 77 years to the last great financial collapse. It reminded me of my recent post about Cameron and the mystical “we” politicians always …
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