by Artie Isaac | Nov 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Years ago, if you found yourself out of work, you told your friends, "I'm a consultant." You ordered business cards. A hundred of them."Consultant" sounded so expert, so rather-rather, so high-paying and freedom-granting. But you were a...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 24, 2008 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
A week or so ago, I challenged the readers of Net Cotton Content to send money for us to spend on Kiva.com, a global charitable microlending website.Thanks to loyal and generous readers John, Rachel, Emily, Abbie, and Michelle (and your humble writer for rounding up...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 22, 2008 | Living an engaged life
Thanks to Stephanie for sending this item from The New York Times.It describes the behavior of happy people. Of course, they don’t watch as much much television as less happy people. You expect that sort of message from me by now. But, here: now you can read it...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
Seems like I keep asking you to do things.What am I? Your significant other?You're thinking: "Artie, if I wanted a(nother) spouse, I'd go get some new stink, list myself on match.com — where their tagline says "It's okay to look"™ — ...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 19, 2008 | Unsolicited Suggestions
Listen. We met in an MBA program. Was it love at first sight? Yeah, yeah. Sure. Sure, it was. Whatever.We were two MBA candidates. What do you think?I'll tell you this. It was no acquisition. It was a merger of equals. And more than a pooling of assets. We...
