The first to present his case seems right, until another comes forward and questions him. — Proverbs 18:16 — It happens on Wall Street. It happens in Washington. And it happens in board rooms across the country. What we’re talking about is the misreading and misuse of data. This article is directed toward online marketing decisions based on analytics. It’s self-evident that without accurate facts, you’re usually not going…

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. — Geo. Orwell, 1984 — When future historians write about the 20th Century, it would not surprise me to find it had been nicknamed The Century of Spin. Today more than ever we see that the battle for the minds of the people revolves around the manner in which events get interpreted, not necessarily the…

Two views on the pursuit of happiness. I am proposing that what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is totally at odds with what it has come to mean today. To elaborate on how this came about is not my aim here…

“We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other.” — Vala Alshar — For years I have referenced data from the Gallup organization for insights on various topics. What I like about Gallup Polls is that they stake a claim on getting the most diverse viewpoints from the broadest field of data. …

“You may have the world if I may have Italy” — Verdi — In April 2023 I traveled to Italy for the first time in my life. For reasons I can only guess I’ve always felt an inward desire to one day visit Italy. How marvelous it was when on my 70th birthday last year I received an all expenses paid trip to…

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.” — Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption — I’ve long been a fan of Cool Hand Luke, the epic prison film starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy. Like all great films, there are memorable scenes and memorable lines, including this one by the prison captain: “What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate.” Paul Newman is Luke Jackson…

“Never underestimate the Power of Influence.” — Benjamin Suulola — Influences: We all have roots, and if one were to make the effort we could probably each make a genealogical tree of our ideas, identifying the people who have been our own chief influences. The same holds true for the authors and thinkers whose books we have become familiar with…

“The face that launched a thousand ships…” — Though most of us are familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse, I’m willing to bet most of you do not recall — or ever knew — the beginning of this historical event, which took place over three millennia ago. In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against…

A future poet shares his thoughts with his… —