All interviewees should ask for this

Words that I and Fresh Air Terry Gross say that reveal our Brooklyn roots:

inaugural/inauguration
daughter
(sometimes) law

3 yr old girl in cafe, to strangers with a dog: 'I have a dog. And a cat!'

Strangers: 'Wow.'

Girl's dad: 'We don't have either of those things.'

Honored to have my piece selected by Transom.org for their Small, Random & Meaningful series (and yes, Ira Glass owes me $5, sort of)
transom.org/2023/what-nice…

Great B2B companies feel less like they're selling a product and more like they're evangelizing a movement.

5 principles for crafting a movement-defining strategic narrative, w/detailed examples from Gong, OneTrust, Salesforce, and others:

Apparently my parents wrote into The New York Times for advice during our Yosemite trip in ‘81 and they just published the response

???

Never realized it before but Mike Pence sounds exactly like Nick Offerman

'Headliner is lamb' is my new favorite copy

'At what point do people get to do what they want?'

— OH in Oakland

All good things start with a ridiculous request

'I think it's time we became pickleball people'

— OH in Oakland, CA

Five years later “never” is looking like a good bet

Every day I have to clean up the spam cesspool that my Google Drive 'shared with me' folder has become — why doesn't Drive reject docs attached to emails that Gmail has flagged as spam?

My mom got a visit from an fbi agent in college who accused her of subscribing to the Columbia Record Club and not paying. Turned out her roommate had placed the order, forging my mom’s signature. This analogy by William Shatner works in more ways than one.

“How could your nose be stuffed up when it’s so big?”

— coworker in Tokyo expressing sincere doubt when I called in sick, ca. 1991

You really haven't lived until you've heard The Real Michael Imperioli and @StevenSchirripa
debate whether squid come from outer space on Talking Sopranos

got this text from my dad — tell the ceo of @bdo_usa my dad says he should call me or 'someone like' me

In the latest Chill Beefs, my friend silviomenendez complains about not being able to find a good therapist chillbeefs.com/therapists-sil…

quarterly memento mori