I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.
More content will be created today than existed in entirety before 2003.
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the windscurrents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2. 0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.
The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.
Well, at this point, it looks like the Iraqi forces are moving into the city center itself. Now they've been working on this for seven months now. The American military's been pushing them and encouraging them to really get into the city and rout ISIS. So now they're finally doing it.
If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him. We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.