• • Lessons From Pink Floyd: Drugs, S...anity and Rock n' Roll : Last Friday a motley crew went to see Roger Waters perform Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It wasn’t a concert. It was an image and sound spectacle, a rock opera performance with screens, giants, and fireworks lighting up the entirety of AT&T ballpark. Like many of my generation, I first started listening to Pink Floyd in high school, feeling only its lyrics could relate to the melodra...
  • What Would Machiavelli Do?: I can relate a lot of my personal life to Sex and the City episodes. In difficult romantic situations I often wonder, “what would Carrie Bradshaw do?” I can relate a lot of my business life to texts I was forced to read in AP literature class. When an old business colleague asked me for advice on how to best manage her team, I thought, “what would Machiavelli do? Many know Machiavell...
  • Not Thinking About Sex in a Monastery: Hedonism and asceticism have always been fundamental parts of American culture. Never able to completely stay true to one path, we take turns diving into each, using one to wash us from the pleasurable guilt of the other. In pursuit of a little of each for writing inspiration, I drove down Big Sur, California.  Big Sur was home of religious devotion, organics,  and the erotic novels o...

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