by Mark O'Brien | Nov 30, 2015
I read a post the other day by a British chap who wrote that, when he arrived at his office at 7:30 one morning, the only sound he could hear was the background hum of technology. I immediately wondered: How did he know it wasn’t tinnitus? If you clicked on the...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 19, 2015
irony (noun): incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is, or a situation or result showing such incongruity When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 17, 2015
This past weekend, I attended the ninth annual Natural Living Expo in nearby Marlborough, Massachusetts. I have no idea why. Being at the Expo recalled the first time I walked into a hardcore comic-book shop. I was in search of the first two editions of the legendary...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 16, 2015
If you read my ramblings with any regularity, you know I don’t believe in accidents: Everything that’s supposed to happen does happen. Everything that’s supposed to happen happens in its own time. And everything that happens happens for a reason....
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 13, 2015
I have to admit I’m not one to keep up with all of the statutes that govern my particular state, which happens to be Connecticut. Given the possibility that one can find himself in violation of said statutes — however unwittingly, innocuously, or innocently — it...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 12, 2015
Identity becomes voice. Voice defines value. Value creates presence. Presence becomes marketshare. Marketshare ensures success. That’s why. The quest for success is the story of potential achieved. It’s the story of diligence, self-awareness, objective...
