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big two-hearted racetrack

This past Thursday I went to a corporate event at F1 Boston in Braintree. The sales team had been meeting there all day; Managed Services was joining them for dinner, drinks, and kart racing, not in that order. We drove on F1′s “City Course”: an uphill slope, two ninety degree turns, a downhill hairpin, and [...]

up onto the banks of this hard land

Our ancestors were hunters and foragers. The kind of hunger that we call “starving” today (as in “Mom, I’m -”), they lived with every waking hour. They followed herds of animals that were faster, stronger and better armed than they were and they died if they weren’t smarter. For the first ninety thousand years of [...]

let me take you on a journey through carmel city

The longer I work in marketing, the less comfortable I am with “eighteen to thirty-five” as a demographic. I wouldn’t want to spend 2 minutes in an elevator with most 20-year-olds, and I have to spend another 5 years in the same demo as them? There’s nothing I have in common with them aside from [...]

ain’t had the blues yet today, but I can feel them coming on

Those of you following me on Facebook or Twitter know about the hassle I’ve been going through with Comcast lo these past weeks. Months now, if you trace it to the first modem outages in early April. Throughout this whole ordeal, I’ve been more impressed than I expected by Comcast’s customer service. Every time I’ve [...]

these are the days when you wish your bed was already made

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. – Arthuer Schopenhauer Our office shares a floor and a restroom with a rent-a-desk tech center. Coming out of the men’s room the other day, I found a man with professorial wrinkles and a denim shirt smiling at me. “They locked me [...]

the world weighs on my shoulders, but what am I to do?

On Friday, I came downstairs from my desk to get a seltzer water from the fridge. I noticed three cans of seltzer lying in the crevice between our two refrigerators. Since this isn’t the usual place to store water, my mind reeled. I looked up above the fridge, where twelve-packs of soda are kept. Within [...]

every interview, ever

(FADE IN ON: any office, any town, any time in the last twenty or next ten years) (CANDIDATE sits on overstuffed couch in lobby. He/she studies the resume that he/she knows by heart in a buff leather folder. Every few minutes, he/she looks at the company’s awards hanging on the wall. RECEPTIONIST avoids eye contact. [...]

h.o.v.a., gold bottles and that ace of spades

Friday wasn’t my first time to the Liberty Hotel, but it was the first time I got to marvel at how the owners have redesigned the interior. Having Sylvia on my arm helped: she has an eye for design and spent a lot of the evening calling out little details. Me, I admired the redesign [...]

we don’t punch girls, and we don’t punch a clock

Today is my last day at Internet Inc. Tomorrow I start work at Micro Machines., a start-up in Boston that manages display advertising through data-intensive platforms. A few notes: This is the first job I’ve taken that belonged to the same industry as the job previous. I guess I’m building a career now. Once again, [...]

home is the place I want to be, but I guess I’m already there

Every fall, the Hancock Tower starts bringing in live musicians to play during the afternoon. It’s someone with an electric keyboard, or a flautist, or a string quartet once we approach the Christmas season. It adds a touch of culture, the kind you’d get in a suburban mall or a clean hotel, to an otherwise [...]

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