by Mark O'Brien | Jan 29, 2018
Can Pit Bulls Be Trusted? The dog in the photo above is Eddie. I know that because he’s mine. He can be trusted. I know that, too, because he’s mine. In fact, he can be trusted so completely, the cat in the photo trusts him. The cat’s name is Sammy....
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 22, 2018
Harvard Business Review (HBR) is at it again. That’s right. It gives me no pleasure to report that its esteemed editors saw fit to run a piece of banal baloney called, “Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy”. It resisted all...
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 15, 2018
Simulated Anesthesia I happened to see a posting the other day for a series of training sessions on Simulated Anesthesia. At first, I assumed the sessions were intended to teach the uninitiated and the still-interesting how to conduct corporate meetings, since the...
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 8, 2018
Gas Neutrality I’m absolutely livid. But before I tell you why, here’s the back story: When I came back from Woodstock, I was appalled to realize how much money I’d spent on gas. Nobody made me go. And nobody made me spend the money. But I decided to...
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 4, 2018
If you happen to be one of those climate skeptics, you know, the ones who think science is … well … science, rather than some ideological consensus or a political popularity contest, this headline ought to jar your preserves: “Bomb cyclone blasts...
