The Hunt for New Music: Chris Isaak is a major talent. He has a style that’s a little bit country rock, a little bit Elvis, and a lot rock & roll. With his country & western style suits he’d be right at home on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry or in Madison Square Garden. …
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The Man Who Changed The World’s Most Popular Game
Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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What’s On The P-List?
Paying Attention: The richest female athlete in the world, Maria Sharapova, admitted this week that she had taken a “banned substance” –meldonium–and was more than likely going to receive a suspension from professional tennis. Sharapova is an Olympic medalist and one of the few players to have won all four of the grand slam events in tennis: …
Babe Ruth Quote
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up……”
Live from Daryl’s House: Rob Thomas
The Hunt For New Music. Once in a while, you find a great source of new music. Maybe it’s something that’s been around for a while and you were late to the discovery party. Maybe it’s an entirely new band or sound that came to you in an entirely new way. One of the very …
Kennedy on Negotiations
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate…”
Outbox: Ray Tomlinson,Inventor of email
Transitions: Ray Tomlinson (1941-2016), a computer scientist who is credited with the invention of perhaps the world’s most personalized channel of digital communications–email–died last week at the age of 74. Tomlinson was working for Ratheon and developed email as a means to communicate on the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet. By all accounts, he was a …
The Ultimate Driverless Machine
Paying Attention: BMW sees the future and it doesn’t involve you driving one of their cars. It involves you being driven in one of their cars. Here’s a short take on how an iconic brand is rethinking its’ future, from Fortune magazine. The Fine Print: Photo of BMW I8 from Automative Rythym via Flickr, …
Stoppard on Exits
“Every exit is an entry, somewhere…”
Buckley on debating
“Never debate an amateur…”