White House

  • It’s on the Post. It’s on Linkedin. It’s in your face. It’s about tourism to America. Or the decline of. You would think people love to flock to the big Apple, to Disneyland and to Las Vegas. But lately, it doesn’t happen (tourists prefer destinations like Turkey over the USA). To top that, we got bad…

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  • In-your-face campaign slogans. Last-minute push. Local, State and National level. Voter drive in full drive. From Alfred Smith (Catholic) to Kennedy (Catholic) onto Romney (Mormon). Religion on the fringe, now got NYT full-page endorsement by Billy Graham. I thought the Reverend was supposed to play neutral, and be wise-man to Presidents, Red or Blue. It’s great…

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  • You wish your co-workers are all into that. They know how you feel, and because of who they are, they take it up a notch. The virtuous cycle. Feeding into it is like fueling the fire. Passion, dedication and yes, winning. Don’t you miss working in teams with those qualities? Pettiness has no place there.…

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  • Marketers have had a field day over the last few decades: market fragmented and segmented. The former is a reality in our pluralistic society. The later, careful study and strategy to go after niche markets. Microtrend covers this very topic: knitting, teen markets etc…as long as the niche constitutes 1% of the total mass market. It’s a…

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  • I finished the epilogue to “the Devil in the White City” longing for more. That’s how good the read was. The architects and builders reached out to the sky, and in Ferris’ case, taking the people up with him for an amusement ride in 1893. The Fair (DreamLand) later inspired DisneyLand. But not all was…

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  • Transparent trail

    I saved up my visual history in 3/4 inch, VHS, slides, prints, CDs, hard-drive, flashdrive and cloud. Not so much for me, but for my daughters . That collage documented my fits and starts. Each person is a narrative whose ending remains a mystery ( ‘in my end, is my beginning”). In the Year of Magical Thinking, the widow-writer kept wishing that…

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