I have a simple question.  Why are profitable companies laying off people ?  I can see if a company’s survival is at stake.  If payroll can’t be met. If debt can’t be paid. Then layoffs are a necessary evil. Even if companies have created cash flow deficits through their own mistakes, that’s the nature of…

Now that twitter seems to be a media darling and an acquisition target, I thought I would share some of my observations. 1. Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance 2. Twitterers are older. Myspace started around music and students. Facebook started around college students. Twitter…

I posted a warning almost 2 years about Hedge Fund IPOs and the risk of leveraging. With the market skyrocketing back up and never seemingly going down, I wanted to re post some reminders of just how I believe the market works. Agree or disagree, its up to you. This post is from June of…

I hate getting an envelope every however many weeks asking me to pay for my newspaper.  With that envelope comes the obligation to either write a check or find some cash. But it also comes with the uneasiness of deciding how much of a tip to leave the paperboy.  Of course these days, at least…

We had a bear market. We still may be in a bear market. We will have bear market rallies. We will have pullbacks. Buy on the pullbacks.  The market will definitely be up in a few years. Thats all we all know. Everyone. From Warren Buffet on down. No one knows more. No one knows…

Every year or two I like to repost some “classic” posts. At least classic in the sense that they are the most viewed and most personal to me.  So here you go. Success and Motivation, Part 1 Apr 23rd 2004 9:37AM Success and Motivation I did it too. I drove by big houses and would wonder…

if you dont follow Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), you could not possibly understand how loyal and rabid fans of the sport are.  When people talk about fans that take supporting their favorites to extremes they usually use Nascar fans as examples.  Well write it down. MMA fans blow Nascar fans away. Thats not a knock…

This is the year of WTF. Yep, What the F&&&. It doesn’t matter what got you to the point of saying it. Maybe you got fired/layed off. Maybe your company went out of business. Maybe you quit because you couldn’t take it any longer. Maybe you are just graduating from school and the prospects of…

1. Has anyone noticed that its impossible to trust a single word uttered about coaching changes, the draft, trades and even celebration parties these days ? Bloggers, sports websites and even the print media have gotten so desperate they seem to have come to the conclusion that fabricated stories, passed off as rumors, are a…

Great catch from the folks over at TechCrunch. In their post “What the hell happened to the free version of Google Apps” ,   they take note that Google is doing everything possible to channel new users of Google Apps to the paid version.  This apparent shift in Google strategy regarding free raises some interesting…