At the risk of starting a new hipster trend, I’ve decided to document what life is like in the modern world with a flip phone. How has switching from an iPhone to the LG Exalt brought me so much amusement that I’ve started blogging about it? A few reasons:
Continue reading →What can I say about running a business?
When the good times are going, there’s not much that can knock you off from that “top of the world” feeling.
Money coming in, customers are happy, and you’ve built something your proud of. It just doesn’t get much better than that.
Conversely, it doesn’t get much worse than waking up one day realizing that everything you built is gone; realizing that you could have done something to prevent it.
But this isn’t about regrets and this isn’t about living in the past. A business isn’t built on what worked in the past but on how it innovates for the future. This was a tough lesson for me to learn because for most of my career, I knew nothing but success after success.
Maybe that’s why it took me so long to get a damn clue.
My thoughts delivered
I’m sitting in Barnes and Noble in Union Square, New York writing this post and looking around in amazement. What’s the big deal, it’s just a bookstore, right?
But I’m looking at a bigger picture. Something a lot bigger than just sitting in a bookstore typing away on my computer.
Programming is getting more complex than ever. Stacks upon stacks, bible-length style guides, and compilers that turn human readable code into robot code. As the programming world around me gets more complex, I find my own code becoming more basic than ever.
Continue reading →There comes a time in your life when you’ve just had enough; when the physical pain renders you useless, the mental torture of ignorance dumbs you down, and the feeling of uselessness brings down your self-worth.
Continue reading →I recently carried out what’s known as the “Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush,” which is a holistic way of clearing gallstones out of your liver and will be sharing my results and documenting future cleanses in this post.
Continue reading →Once upon a time I was a prolific writer. Released from the prison cells of High School, I rushed to my room and wrote for hours. Thousands of words a night and countless articles later, I had learned that words could not only create a business, but also a way of life.
Continue reading →My journey to quitting marijuana is full of broken promises, inconsistencies, and enough frustrating ups and downs that finally reached a breaking point and brought me to a remedy I would have never considered before.
Continue reading →Aaron Clarey brilliantly uncovers a core problem of my Millennial generation through the lens of corporate business strategy.
Continue reading →A Valueless (Though Highly Profitable) Generation
Millennials are the largest generation alive today. They are also in that “sweet spot” of being young enough to still be “hippish,” BUT also old enough to make money to spend (well…ok, let’s be honest, BORROW money to spend). They are the largest consumer group in the US and the western world both by numbers and dollar volume amount. They should be the most targeted group of consumers by corporations around the world, and they are. But for all their youth, numbers, and purchasing power, they have one tragic and horrific flaw.They are truly valueless.
Oh, dear Beatrixe. I saw you see me, and that was enough to tell me everything through the noise. Walking past you was my first reply, embodying the city below me was my next. I didn’t have a plan when I grabbed your wrist, and that’s why you loved it.
Hi, I said. I can’t dance, you said. You told me your name, I didn’t hear you. I told you I had no girlfriends, you didn’t believe me. Why doesn’t anybody else dance? We danced for them because this floor is ours and you mine.
I still don’t hear your name. You said you like tall guys. Is that what Spanish girls like? Your lips burned all the fire of the night into mine, and I swept you across the bar because I could. Your friends don’t understand and rush us from behind. You are too attractive for them anyways. Now they insist you leave with them, and you can’t say no.
When I finally whip it out you are amazed. Is that T9? You hadn’t seen a flip phone since High School, so you write your name. Beatrixe. You didn’t mean to spell it like that but now I have something to work with. You pressed your lips to mine and were gone. It took you longer to write your name.
My friends swore they never saw you but they are just like your friends. I saw you again on the street and you rushed me for another kiss; strangers we never were as strange we are to strangers.
Even though you didn’t remember me the next day our night was always meant to be. I know how to spell your name and you know I was just a passionate passerby. Your number was promptly deleted.
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