And It Isn't What You Think! I admit it. I really love Spotify. Where else can you get “stations” like ‘Weekend Hangouts’, “The Happy Hipster’ or “Smart is the New Sexy?” Curated music that is designed for whatever mood I…
Santa Monica has no shortage of coffee shops. Most interestingly, it also has no shortage of independent coffee shops, likely right across the street or on the same block as a Starbucks or Coffee Bean. And they are very successful. …
(Or Your Product, Or Your Service) I had a really fun dinner at a Thai restaurant by the beach with a single female friend pondering the unanswerable question – what exactly makes two people fall in love? We pontificated and…
I gained five pounds in December. I'm really not happy about it. To make matters worse, because I tore my MCL skiing, I can’t run until it heals – and that was my usual way of keeping in shape. Alternate…
A recent blog post, Peak Google, caused a fair amount of debate when it suggested that Google’s dominance of the online advertising market could be eclipsed by another phenomenon – native advertising. Notice that I didn’t say displaced or pushed…
There are three Whole Foods within one mile of where I live. Yet, I rarely go to any of them. I used to go to Whole Foods, mostly to buy produce. But, I tired of spending $20-$40 for a bag…
The recent heat wave in Los Angeles has prompted me to think not of global warming, but a rather more pedantic subject – ice cream. In particular Jeni’s Splendid ice cream. I had purchased the “Whiskey and Pecans” flavor at…
I was in Carmel, California last weekend after an absence of over 25 years, and was struck by how much I liked the same simple pleasures of Carmel’s environment – the sight and sound of the waves crashing against the…
I left the music business in 1999, right around the time that Napster and other peer-to-peer file sharing businesses were giving consumers the ability to pirate recorded music for free. Recording artists soon turned to live performances as a way…
After a weekend of attempting to keep up with my son and his buddies skiing and boarding through nearly 20,000 vertical feet per day on the mountain at Vail, my physically challenged body was not looking forward to the sturm…