The Red Angle familia took a vacation to Mexico a few weeks ago. At the pool, English-speakers were the minority. Mostly it was Spanish with some Portuguese and a few Korean families. My 7-year-old son surveyed the… Read More ›
Month: April 2014
Your bugs are shallow.
Ben Horowitz, he of the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, recently published a fantastic new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a business when there are no easy answers. Never mind the venture capital mystique, if you… Read More ›
How I struck out 18 7-year-olds yesterday.
I manage my son’s baseball team. We’re the Oakland A’s. I picture myself as Billy Beane, the Moneyball puppeteer, but technically I’m Art Howe – the manager of that team no one remembers. Anyway, it’s a baseball league… Read More ›
What you’re aiming for.
6 weeks. 6 weeks is the right amount. In 6 weeks, focusing less than 10 minutes a day using a combination of brief videos, customized workbooks, flash cards and an audio CD in your car, you can speak Spanish to solve… Read More ›
How to Achieve Instant Street Cred: The Notorious NMG.
“No mames, guey” is The Notorious NMG. (noh MAH-mays way) The Notorious NMG is the fastest way to gain jobsite cred – that is, credibility among Spanish-speaking workers on the job. “No mames, guey” means, “Quit messing with me, dude.”… Read More ›
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