Recently, I was on a conference call where one of my colleagues spoke up with a contradiction to the direction being suggested by the client. The client listened, thought for a moment, and then responded by saying, “That’s a good
“It is what it is”: the “stuff” of a new generation
When I was a boy, the word “stuff” really bothered me. It was used frequently, and it didn’t really “say” anything. A typical exchange would be something like: A: “Hi B, what have you been doing today?” B: “Oh, you
Hypocrisy and hyperbole
I’m subscribed to the Wall Street Journal’s News Alerts. I woke up this morning to one sent at 4:18 AM PT with the following lead-in: “A monstrous scale of devastation is emerging from the Chinese region worst hit by yesterday’s
Found time
My favourite thing in the world just might be found time. What is found time, you ask? It is when you unexpectedly have a block of time that you thought you would be spending in a way you didn’t particularly