Car Negotiation Isn’t What You Think It Is

  Besides buying a house, car purchase is probably the biggest personal financial deal you’re ever going to make. Well, surprise! Car Negotiation isn’t what you think it is. I could go on about this at length. There are different parts to any deal you...

The Ratcheting Screwdriver: Great Idea, or Disaster?

If you’re Rent-A-Dad—or really, any Dad-With-A-Plan—you think about things like tools. Hand Tools. Power Tools. Cool Tools in general. You love tools, or at least see them for what they are, which is … well, OK … tools. But Dads are a practical lot,...

Improved Feel For The Water … (Context Matters)

Content may be is king, but without context you have little more than click-bait. Let’s get an improved feel for the water. Yeah, I’m being clever, but that’s the point of this post—and a big piece of what we help our clients accomplish. Every day,...

Savoring Small Victories in a Wacky World

A few years ago, I told you about Google predicting that I’d be visiting a Costco in New Jersey. While I was sitting in my office in New York. Using a desktop computer. While it’s a complete coincidence that Google’s handling of data is becoming a...

“He’s My Geek”. Or Is He Something Else?

I’ve been helping people get things done for … well, let’s just leave that at “a long time”. Because that’s so, I have some observations that time has only made more true. One is that people almost always think of you in the first...