Thinking small

Sometimes the ideas for columns come while I’m walking down the street. Sometimes it’s an article a friend sends along that prompts thought. This one was a combination of those things. I was already pondering ‘small shifts’ when a friend...

Life Coaching Mark Zuckerberg

I enjoy Facebook. I’m quite active on it. Much has been made possible by it. So for the most part, hats off to its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for his amazing innovation. But, whoa, the young man could bring something more to the table when it comes to listening....

Quotable

Paulo Coelho to Julie Bosman in The New York Times — “Best-Selling Author Gives Away His Work”: Back to the origins of writing, they used to see writers as wise men and women in an ivory tower, full of knowledge, and you cannot touch them. The ivory...

Dabbling in Woolf

Getting immersed in my first reading assignment for my Women Write Their Lives class at NYU. It’s three memoir essays by Virginia Woolf from a book called Moments of Being. I love how she intersperses her inner process with bursts of beauty in her turn of...

Shepherding ‘Inmates to Entrepreneurs’

The people I get to talk to because of my Game Plan column, some of whom I seek out and some of whom find me, are always remarkable. Count co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, Brian Hamilton, among them. I so enjoyed our interview about the work he and his Raleigh-based...