December 16, 2020
Make it Complicated or Keep it Simple?
Apple and Microsoft are trillion-dollar companies, very successful, have lots of smart people so why can’t either of them figure out how to have an…
December 9, 2020
When it’s Yours You’re More Passionate
Recently we had the last real harvest from our garden as we picked tomatoes, arugula, lettuce, figs, beets, zucchini, and spaghetti squash. Then we got…
December 2, 2020
Ask the Right Question or Get the Wrong Answer
Here are a couple questions reporters asked (the wrong way. Reporter (to football QB): Do you think other teams have figured you out?QB (rolling eyes):…
November 18, 2020
The Deep Dark Web and More Scary Things
It’s Halloween season so let’s discuss scary things. I recently took advantage of the offer from www.cyberstreams.com to have them run a free Dark Web scan. As…
November 11, 2020
Businesses and Workers – It Must be Teamwork
Two interesting articles appeared on September 6. The Seattle Times published a Los Angeles Times article titled, “Instacart shoppers face unforgiving metrics: ‘It’s a very…
November 7, 2020
Owners Should Know What’s Going On, Shouldn’t They?
The September issue of the Fearey Group’s newsletter was titled PR Failure #26: The Ellen-ments of a Talk TV PR Nightmare. FYI, the Fearey Group…
October 28, 2020
When City Slickers Go Camping
I was reminded of the Billy Crystal movie City Slickers when I saw the following, which would be funny if these people weren’t damaging our…
October 23, 2020
Lowest Common Denominator
Realize what I give as examples below represents at least part of our customer/client base, which is why we can’t assume too much about people,…
October 21, 2020
I Didn’t Sign Up for This
We’re doing online training with our adorable puppy Coco and it reinforces our feelings we lucked out and got a great dog. We see and…
October 16, 2020
Change Must Come from Within
It’s no secret the Seattle City Council makes good old-fashioned liberal Democrats look like the old John Birch Society or the Tea Party. So when…
