Life Done Right™

If you decide to work in the creative arts, then you have to be prepared to accept a life of regret and chagrin as you watch those with less originality earn a living by merely accepting the status quo and getting the average person to accept it as well. There is no glorious purse in [...]

Does your child or grandchild look like Mark Zuckerberg? Right down to the Adidas flip-flops? Congratulations! He or she too could be the founder of a billion dollar company! Mark is the founder of Facebook, that online social network the younger generation loathes your presence on. Ideas don’t require wearing a suit, so mellow out [...]

Would you believe it took a study to finally confirm that most of the flakes running public corporations are overpaid. The magic of merging two companies to create an argument that you deserve excessive compensation because two companies are worth more together than separate makes about as much sense as a monkey shaking a tambourine [...]

There’s always at least one person in a group who likes to count things. It doesn’t really matter what’s being counted so much as simply paying attention to the precise amount of the subject or activity at hand.
Demographers have noted that there are 78 million Baby Boomers. That’s a pretty big number. Advertisers have [...]

One of the few pleasures of waking up early before heading off to work in the morning is the smell of a fresh-brewed pot of coffee. That first sip does wonders for energizing the body and mind into the realization that if you don’t get out of bed then there’s no paycheck at the end [...]

This whole business of CEOs raking in obscene amounts of money relative to the rest of the worker suits in the corporation sure makes getting up every morning a waste of time. The only way to make real money these days is to own the right to reproduce something or offer a proprietary service. Once [...]

Let’s pretend that one day, as you strolled down the street, a mysterious man approached you and suddenly handed you $5 million. All he said was, “Do something that matters to you.” What you would do? One man faced this dilemma after achieving success in the plywood business. Restless and hardly willing to retire, he [...]

Risk can be your best friend when an idea so consumes your soul that you can’t imagine living one more moment without gambling your life away to prove you are right…right as in my passion will soon be your passion…I just know it, I feel it, or as they sing in A Chorus Line, “gimme [...]

Democracy used to be about electing people to represent the interests of our nation as a whole. Now it’s about stuffing money into election coffers in exchange for pushing legislation that guarantees a revenue stream from taxpayer dollars. In a free marketplace, risk is supposed to be weighed against reward. In America today, corporations eliminate [...]

When labor is cheap and the standard of living is low, then it’s possible to have delivery men known as dabbawallas bring hot-cooked meals to Indian office workers instead of letting them wander down to their local cafeteria or neighborhood restaurant. Globalization only works when there’s a disparity between standards of living. It’s probably just [...]

Source: Valleywag
Hopefully you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. If you did, haul your ass-mind over to A VC and plunge into the debate about whether anyone over 30 doesn’t qualify as an entrepreneur, at least in Silicon Valley. Is there some mental barrier that prevents “older” people from starting [...]

We love data research porn. This is information that outlines a market or provides a series of insights into consumer behavior that creates major business opportunities. Elizabeth Pope dug up some facts that show seniors are the key demographic for health clubs. Forget those twenty-something hard bodies! Embrace the soiled underwear crowd driving Ferrari’s and [...]

Supertramp released an album in 1974 called Crime of the Century. It was a huge success, including the song Dreamer. The lyrics went something like:
Take a dream on a Sunday
Take a life, take a holiday
Take a lie, take a dreamer
dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along…
Well, a couple of doctors must have this song on [...]

We missed this item in the New York Post that reported on how a 49-year-old man is suing Donald Trump and producer Mark Burnett for not seriously considering him as a candidate for The Apprentice. Donald may be 60, but lordy, good television ratings apparently are not the stuff of older apprentices. It’s called age [...]

For every get rich scheme out there, there’s usually one that makes more common sense than another. So much so, in fact, that it just might get you to plunk down some of your cash in pursuit of the alchemist’s dream: turning cold hard cash into even more cold hard cash.
Mary Furlong has written [...]

Actor Danny Glover got into a tiff when a New York Daily News’ photographer snapped his picture as he exited a Brooklyn Federal Court. What was he doing at the Court? He was meeting two hustlers being charged with a pump-and-dump stock scheme for a bogus company called Queench. Glover apparently had no idea that [...]

If there are any shapely female retirees with time on their hands and need some extra cash, then might we suggest this Craigslist opportunity to jell-o wrestle at a young man’s 30th birthday party. There’s no age limit given, so why not find out if they discriminate based on age and then sue them if [...]

Once in awhile facts have a way of making you stop for a moment to simply ponder the vastness of the universe. I stumbled on some facts regarding the size of the shoe market in the United States that caused me to waste a good twenty minutes thinking about the act of buying a pair [...]

The Trump ego has now been enlarged, thanks to Ivanka and Don, Jr. joining The Apprentice. Nepotism is fine in a family business, but when it becomes so self-promoting you have to wonder where the ego stops and desire for fame implodes.
Click here to watch Trump nepotism at work

Calling all architects and builders! Here’s a perfect opportunity to strut your design on the world’s stage of sustainability. Steve Case, the AOL guy, is offering $5 million for green design as outlined below. Get drawing!
Check out Biophilic Design for some ideas
The Investors: Donn Davis, president, and Steve Case, founder, Revolution
What they’ve backed: Exclusive [...]