I’m in that place again. Knee-deep, waist-deep, neck-deep in the writing process, working on the manuscript for a new book, smack dab in the hardest part — the part where it feels like there’s nothing there, and like nothing will ever be there, that it’s a big gaping...
Have you encountered those online articles that people write in foreign languages and then put through a translation filter? They’re pretty hilarious. For example. In the one I excerpt below, the writer mentioned my name … sort of. Ready for this chain of logic?...
Two years ago today, I did one of the smartest things I’ve ever done in my life: I married Ana. You’ve heard the cliché — the one about how good it is when the person you’re in love with is also your best friend? Turns out, in addition to being a cliché, it’s also...
I’ve been thinking lately about Mick Jagger and the Book of Daniel. There’s this riveting scene at the opulent temple of Balshsazzar on the eve of the Babylonians’ ruin (of course they don’t know it’s the eve of their ruin, at least not yet), where this disembodied...
There is a catbird who hangs out on the street light right outside my home office window. The other day I sat at the computer, mute and mesmerized, and listened to him for a full 15 minutes: he warbled and tweeted (the real kind), burbled and sang, chortled and...
In our Introduction to Go-Givers Sell More, Bob Burg and I tried an experiment: we pre-announced a web site that didn’t yet exist. Here’s what we wrote: “It’s easy to get distracted by daily headlines and nightly newscasts that focus on the exploits of the well-heeled...
