Archive for August, 2007
Dear Yahoo Mail:
We’ve been together for over 11 years now. You were my first email account. You’ve seen me through different relationships, schools, jobs, unemployment; you’ve seen me through the good times and the bad. I think I love you, but I’m not in love with you.
You see, I’ve been having problems with you over [...]
20 timeless money rules – Be humble (1) – Money Magazine
This is an excellent Money Magazine slide show on high-level money rules.
How Missed Signs Contributed to a Mortgage Meltdown – New York Times
I worked at a wholesale lender from 2004 to 2006. The prevalence of no doc and low documentation loans always surprised me. I remember telling a b-school colleague who worked for Bain back in 2005 how bad it was going to be when all [...]
I love the UPS Store. I pay them about $20 a month for my mailbox and I think it’s worth every penny.
As you all know by now, I am a consultant who travels 100% of the time. I practically live in hotels and make it home to LA about 1 weekend a month. I have [...]
Okay, this is how I get things done when I’m on the road. I like things to be as effective and efficient as possible. I do follow zenhabits.com’s simplied Getting Things Done methodology (Collect, Process, Plan, Do).
Getting my own personal electronic fax number has been one way of processing the mail that builds up in [...]
MizPee Home
I have yet to utilize this service to its fullest extent but I think its great you can locate a bathroom on the go via text message or via a WAP site.
If you’re a consultant, then you’re going to learn to love or live with the whiteboard. ScanR.com has put out a pretty swell application that allows you to take a picture of a whiteboard, white piece of paper or business card and email it to yourself. The ScanR technology emails you a PDF of the [...]
Okay consultants, this may be a no-brainer but here is a way to reduce the amount of dry cleaning and laundry that you haul around on the road.
Leave your dry cleaning and laundry at a dry cleaner over the weekend. Most dry cleaners will pick up your undies and shirts from your hotel. Ask behind [...]
Proof M.B.A.s Are Overrated, by 20 People Who Are Smarter and Richer than Your Professors – Inside CRM
I think the popular belief is that MBA’s are overrated. While I don’t necessarily agree or disagree, I do believe that there is value in having more education whether or not it translates into dollars.
I also take issue [...]
Priority Pass – 500 Airport Lounges Worldwide
Okay road warriors, here is the best deal you might not have heard of. Priority Pass allows access to most airport lounge facilities across the world. You don’t even have to have status or points to get in. You just pay for the pass, flash it and you’re in [...]
