My brother loves tackle boxes. It’s a fetish of his that started as a small child and persists to this day. He currently has almost a dozen of them packed with overpriced lures, nearly all of which are still in their packaging. Aside from his enjoyment of fishing, I don’t…

I just sold something that was very important to me. It was something I thought about for years before I got it. I had worked on collecting the pieces and building it for months. I loved playing around with it but ultimately I wound up not using as much as…

I was not a good salesperson. It wasn’t that I was lazy. I worked very long hours. It also wasn’t because I was ignorant. Often I understood the product better than the majority of my colleagues, so much so that I found myself training them on the various products I…

I want a laser. That’s an odd thing to want for most people. Even for tech heads, usually something like a laser isn’t high on the wish list. Technophiles typically want the latest and greatest cell phone, PC, or some new up and coming gadget. I want all that stuff…

I was sitting at a local diner. The kind that has regulars that have been coming for years. I love going to places like that diner as it’s always fun to sit and listen to the customers and staff interact like they are neighbors or family, which in many cases…

I was in a leadership group at work. I absolutely love them, leadership groups I mean. I take part in them whenever I can and have been in many of them over the years. I don’t love them for what you learn. The content is always mixed. Some information is…

It’s the dream of nearly all entrepreneurs and economists, the idea of a truly flexible labor market. They can get employees when and where they need them and only when and where they need them. But like many things in life the ideal isn’t possible without tradeoffs. In my first…

In the first article in this series I talked about some of the different catch-22’s with flexible labor markets, the dream of nearly all entrepreneurs and economists. In a flexible labor market, employers generally want to hire and fire workers as needed, but employers also want regular income, which only…

There is an inflection point between how we manage our lives and what the ideal economic environment is as it relates to employment. Well, maybe conundrum is a better description. Specifically I’m talking about our culture and the concept of flexible labor markets. A flexible labor market, a truly flexible…