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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…

Last month, I travelled to visit my son at the University of Colorado.  One of the unexpected highlights of the trip included a tour of a recently legalized marijuana store. It was quite surreal to see clear jars of marijuana…

I tend to encounter a lot of homeless people since I work near the beach in Santa Monica. They are a part of the community.  But homeless people share a lot more with my local clients than just geography. Homeless…

Revenue Snobs make more money – that’s conclusion I drew according to a recently published article “The Science of Snobbery” There have been many studies published on how so called neighborhood “wine snobs”, when confronted in blind tastings, still often…

Here’s a quick two-question quiz that I bet few of you will get right: Which company developed the first personal computer? Which company invented the first digital camera? Believe it or not, Xerox developed the first personal computer, the Alto,…

I love my Dad.  Not only is he a wonderful and amazing human being, but he is also a really smart guy.  And, in a very familiar refrain from my teenage days, once again I have to acknowledge that he…

Try to guess the most visited law firm web site in the world today.  It’s not Baker McKenzie (#1 in worldwide revenues at $2.3B), or DLA Piper (#2 worldwide), and definitely not LA’s biggest firm, #4 worldwide Latham and Watkins,…

I have always admired the simplicity and truth in Charles Revson’s (Revlon) famous fifty-year old quote “in the factory we make cosmetics, and in the drug store we sell hope.” After all, what women really want is not a one-ounce…