There’s a great scene in the film, The Departed, between Sergeant Dignam & Captain Ellerby, played by Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin, respectively. The state police is teaming up with the Feds on a bust. Dignam/Wahlberg outlines his philosophy… Read More ›
Month: March 2014
What the Chinese, Nigerians, Cubans, Mormons, Iranians and Jews have that you don’t.
Three things: 1. Superiority Complex 2. Inferiority Complex 3. Grit At least that’s the proclamation in Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s new book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups… Read More ›
Why Jennifer Lawrence keeps falling at the Academy Awards.
You know how Jennifer Lawrence fell at the Oscar’s again? Wait. Let me back up…. Do you know who Jennifer Lawrence is? She is Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games trilogy & the post-Jared Subway icon…. Read More ›
No mystery: 3 ways you can improve your jobsite by watching Sherlock.
In the vacuum left by Game of Thrones Season 3 finale, a new “best show on TV” has emerged: BBC’s Sherlock. (Yes, I know Sherlock has been out since 2010, but when you only release 9 episodes in… Read More ›
The 1 sport where the U.S. is getting pummeled on an Olympic scale.
You didn’t have a hard time following the Olympics, did you? I don’t mean the actual events. Some events were hard to follow. The racing events are fairly straightforward – even the ones that combine cross-country skiing and… Read More ›
Why we need more Cheeseheads in Tijuana.
I recently met a Cheesehead who is dominating in Tijuana. Raised in Milwaukee, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout where he studied Construction Management. A top construction firm hired him and sent him packing to Mexico. Almost. … Read More ›