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Chasing Squirrels
June 9, 2025 Good morning! How about the stamina — and the resilience — of the two Spaniards in the 2025 Roland-Garros championship?! Wow! And wow again. Longer than 5 1/2 hours and it comes down to a tie… and the winner is too tired to hold the trophy! Courtesy of television technology, we saved ourselves …
A Good Advertisement
June 2, 2025 Good morning! Scotch Tape is 100-years-old.3M if you didn’t know: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Smoke! Not only on the water, but discouragingly, in the air… Smoke in the Air — again — rendering the sun almost useless. Define it — use it in a sentence — say it again (what?!) — spell …
Artificial Intelligence
May 26, 2025 Good morning! Happy Feast of Remembering — and Reflection… we don’t do enough of either. And, could we please work on peace? According to the ChatGPTs, approximately 90% of workers in the U.S. will get a paid holy day today… including a majority of retail and hospitality workers. My hunch/ guess/ hypothesis assumed far …
Most Ads Do Not Fail Because of Bad Copy
May 19, 2025 Good morning! Happy Feast of Victoria — and the start of summer north of the 49th… no RBC transactions today. We survived the Ides of May. How about those Twins?!Much to my procrastination and protestations I just upgraded my storage capacities — twice. It’s not unlike purchasing three more photo albums from …
Marketing isn’t Guessing; It’s Testing
May 12, 2025 Good morning! Who did you have for Pope? How much did you win/ lose? Anecdotal: Approximately 3% of pistachios are fused tightly shut and you can’t open them; do you use a hammer or do you discard them and count them as a loss? How are you using your rhubarb? Pie? Crisp? …
How We Measure Growth
May 5, 2025 Good morning! May Day! The Feast of Mothers! Spitunias on the Patio! Apple blossoms! Star Wars! Fishing! Pollen! Rhubarb! The Met Gala! Take your pick. Or, how about the Fifth of May and a burrito or two?! Is there a time of year when there is more choices? Wow! And down the stretch they …
Five Ways to Make One on One Meetings More Effective
April 28, 2025 Good morning! Enjoying the ride? Better hold on. Among my more faithful readers and responders week after week is Rosamond — and today is her birthday. Happy Birthday! Happy Election Day to our friends and readers in Canada. Are you responding please or thank you to your artificial intelligence application? If so, according to Sam Altman, it costs, …
A Short One This Week
April 21, 2025 Good morning! Please invest a few minutes this morning listening to Nobel Laureate, Demis Hassabis, as he is interviewed by CBS’s 60 Minutes. If you missed it last night — or even if you watched it, watch it again — this conversation is compelling, scary, outrageous, overwhelming, exciting, futuristic, and erudite. I’ll keep …
Organizations Are Just At the Start of a Transformation
April 14, 2025 Good morning! When you think of the crack of dawn, do you think of it as the very first light of day, usually about an hour before sunrise, ORas the moment of sunrise — or something else? I suppose for many adolescents it might be at about noon. Resilience: Might it apply to Rory?