The worst technology of the 21st century: QR code menus at restaurants. The best definition of technology: The ability to do more with less. Based off this definition, QR code menus at restaurants might be the worst technology ever made. QR code menus do the opposite of technology: They do less with more. You have […]

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” – Robert A. Heinlein

  What can business owners learn from America’s Michelin Star and James Beard award-winning chefs? David Page, creator of the mega-hit Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, has interviewed numerous world-class chefs including Dan Barber, Nancy Silverton, Jonathan Waxman, and Michael Stern for his new podcast that launches on August 27th. David says these culinary […]

      “Mediocrity comes from having perfectly implemented the tried and true, traditional wisdom.”– The Wizard of Ads

    “To those devoid of imagination, a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” – Aldo Leopold

You come fromDust. You will return toDust. That’s why I don’tDust. It might be someoneI Know. Speaking of dust, here is that grand ballad of existential angst from 1978 – Indy Beagle

A Whiter Shade Of Pale” becomes utterly mesmerizing the moment Matthew Fisher’s Hammond organ pierces the air. Procol Harum’s singer Gary Brooker was responsible for writing the music, although Fisher’s organ part was so prominent that he also eventually received a songwriting credit after a protracted court battle. Keith Reid, who served as the band’s […]

  Becoming a children’s book publisher is not “sugar and spice and everything nice.” It is one of the toughest journeys an entrepreneur can take. When Georgia Lininger launched her children’s book imprint in January 2020, she quickly discovered that success was going to require more from her than sweet stories and colorful illustrations. Join […]

Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lieGlad did I live and gladly dieAnd I laid me down with a willThis be the verse you grave for meHere he lies where he longed to beHome is the sailor home from the seaAnd the hunter home from the hill

Robert Louis Stevenson on the island of Samoa where he died at the age of 44 from a lifelong lung deficiency. The woman with the necklace is his wife, Fanny. This photo was taken shortly before he died.

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Wear it, give it away, use it to create an act of kindness. Studies have shown that Kindness actually creates a chemical reaction resulting in reduced anxiety, wellbeing, & joy. It is a wonderful solution to bullying, discrimination, hatred, & fear. The pin is just an opportunity for us to shift the world on it’s […]

Brad Pitt, Ron Howard, and Me I never write click-bait headlines, but I wrote this one just to prove I can. Brad shines from Shawnee, Ron comes from Duncan, and I bailed from Broken Arrow. We’re all Okla-Homeboys. Now that my click-bait headline has done its job and convinced you to keep reading all the […]

Angie Hyche is a clutter expert. Whether it is a storage room, garage, basement, self-storage unit, or your email inbox, Angie knows how to help you sort your possessions and your calendar. Angie is a professional organizer, helping a wide array of organizations and individuals clean up the chaos in their lives. She is also the author of […]

    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

    While at LSU long ago, my friend Roy Laughlin went to an Indian reservation with his roommate who was 100% American Indian. Roy thought they were celebrating a baby’s first birthday — came to find out they were celebrating his first laugh — this is when they believe a child becomes fully human. […]

Artist: Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, born 1944) Title: Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 Medium: Silver gelatin print Edition: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.)9,500 USD 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)11,000 USD 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)13,000 USD 24 x 35 in. (61 x 88.9 cm.)22,000 USD

[Video at the bottom of this page.]Good evening. My name is Fredrik Backman. I’m here tonight because my agent said that this would be good for my career. She said I need to learn how to speak in front of people. ‘It’ll be fun,’ she said. So I told her that I write books. I […]

Bernie Madoff perpetrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history, and before he died in prison in 2021, he met Richard Behar face-to-face 3 times, had more than 50 phone conversations with him, and exchanged more than 300 emails. How did Bernie Madoff pull it off? Who were his accomplices? Why were his investors so […]

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Johnny Molson has been one of the Wizard of Ads Partners for many years, and he will help you grow your business if you meet the following three conditions: 1. You and Johnny have to like each other and feel a connection.2. Johnny needs to be confident that your business has the potential to grow […]

Concerning Tobaccoby Mark Twain (1893) As concerns tobacco, there are many superstitions. And the chiefest is this–that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is nothing of the kind. Each man’s own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. […]

Twenty-nine years ago, Carl Sagan wrote a book called The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995). One of the observations Carl shared in that book is particularly troubling: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. […]

If you are a client of Schwab, Fidelity, or Bank of America; if you fill your tank at Exxon; if you manage your finances with Intuit; or if you find yourself riding a bullet train in Japan, you can thank Dean Guida for making it possible. Dean launched his enterprise software business when he was […]

  Lots of people have been asking me the same 3 questions. QUESTION ONE: “Who were your mentors?” Mentor is a word I never use. In my nose it smells of apprenticeship, that wafting, submissive aroma that arises from a servant who adores his master. By this definition, I have never had a mentor, but […]

Lyle Lovett Remembers Hunter S. Thompson Published by Entertainment Weekly on December 23, 2005 “I was a journalism major at Texas A&M, so Hunter was one of my heroes. When I found out he included me on his ”Honor Roll” list in his book Songs of the Doomed, I was stunned and honored. We became […]

Nick-Anthony Zamucen has launched four successful franchises: a pizza chain, a home care business, a crime scene cleaner, and a water and fire damage repair company. According to Nick-Anthony, there is a proven formula for running a successful franchise, whether you buy into someone else’s concept or decide to start a franchise of your own. […]

The 1968 Chicago riots were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. In Chicago itself, more than 48 hours of rioting left 11 Chicago citizens dead, 48 wounded by police gunfire, 90 policemen injured, and […]

Recorded Live in a single, unedited take while the band was waiting for the producer to arrive. No one knew the sound man was doing a sound check. But he accidentally recorded this unexpected, unrehearsed “Jam Session” improvisational masterpiece.

Chuck Jones wrote the rules for a crazy new world in 1948. These rules have successfully guided the Road Runner & the Coyote for the past 76 years: RULE 1: The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “BEEP-BEEP!” RULE 2: No outside force can harm the coyote – only his own ineptitude […]

      “ I grew up in the projects and my suburban white friends were always nervous about what color to wear in my hood.” ‘Is it ok to wear red?’ “Yeah, dude. You look like the bassist for Weezer. You’ll be fine. The crips aren’t gonna see you in a red sweater and go […]

Laughter. Sorrow. Anger. Wonder. Aim their laughter like a cannon that booms out over the water.Aim their sorrow like a rainbow that follows a storm.Aim their anger like a lightning bolt that kills a man standing under a tree. Be careful not to stand under trees. People would rather be angry that bored.This is why […]

Jeffery Eisenberg sent this to me the other day, “You can warn your friend that he is being conned, and he will get angry at you. And when the whole thing comes crashing down and he loses his money, and he can no longer deny that you were right, he will never forgive you. He […]

Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do. Got a Honey jar stuck on his nose. He came to me asking help and advice. From here no one knows where he goes. So I sent him to ask the owl, if he’s there, how to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear. So […]

According the the Lincoln Museum, Abraham Lincoln was a harsh critic of the anti-immigrant ‘Know Nothing’ movement of the 1850s. He seemed to particularly resent their claims of patriotism while trying to take freedoms away from targeted groups. On August 24, 1855, Abe said in a private letter to Joshua Speed, “I am not a […]

  Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” started out as a homework assignment from Phil Everly of the Everly brothers.  Warren Zevon and his good friend, Robert “Waddy” Wachtel were working together as part of the backing band for The Everly Brothers at the time.  Warren tells of the song’s origins on WarrenZevon.com: “Phil Everly said, […]

Rusty Komori was the tennis coach at the Punahou School in Honolulu from 1994 until 2015. The school won the state championship each and every year. That’s a record not held by any other coach in any other sport. As he tells Deputy Roving Reporter Maxwell Rotbart, the core of success — in sports or business — is a […]

“The Sarrià cemetery is one of Barcelona’s best-hidden corners. If you look for it on the maps, you won’t find it. If you ask locals or taxi drivers how to get there, they probably won’t know, although they’ve all heard about it. And if, by chance, you try to look for it on your own, […]

  “But what remains to these stones is their eloquent ability to deliver the message common to all funerary architecture, from marble tomb to rough wooden roadside shrine — namely, ‘Remember.’ …The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.” […]

  We’re playing a couple of CCR songs today in memory of Dickie Grimes, who loved his bright red welding gloves and the music ofCreedence Clearwater Revival. Rest in Peace, Dickie. – Indy Beagle & The Tiny Tribe

Quotes from The Maze Runner “Everything’s going to change. One day you’ll understand that.” “We’re all stories in the end.” “The maze isn’t something we’ll ever understand. It’s not meant for us to understand.” “If I can look at my problem from another angle, my mountain might become a hill.” “Sometimes the past is meant […]

  “A story is a kind of drug… It’s not just a state of high attention, it’s a state of high suggestibility.” “You are wielding massive power.  You wave your pen like a wand, cast a spell, the spell allows you to enter into other people’s brains.  Change how they think, change how they feel, […]

“Heroes are dangerous things. Bigger than life, highly exaggerated and always positioned in the most favorable light, a hero is a beautiful lie. We have historic heroes, folk heroes and comic book heroes. We have heroes in books and songs and movies and sport. We have heroes of morality, leadership, kindness and excellence. And nothing […]

  “Graduates, faculty, parents, relatives, undergraduates, and old people that just come to these things:  Good morning, and Congratulations to the Dartmouth class of 2011. Today you have achieved something special, something only 92% of Americans your age will ever know… a college diploma. That’s right. With your college diploma, you now have a crushing […]

August 13-14: Only 15 people will be allowed to attend an extremely special business class taught by Jeffrey Eisenberg. The wizard is hoping his young adult grandson can attend.

When I was 15 I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask voung people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no […]

Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. Wikipedia   Born: February 22, 1040, Troyes, France   In 1096, Rashi witnessed the massacre of friends and family members at the hands of Crusaders en route to the Holy Land.   Died: July 13, 1105 (age 65 years), Troyes, […]

“Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. We can’t get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking […]

Messengers Make Me Melancholy Any person who relays messages to you from the boss, is now your new boss. An excellent messenger might relay exactly what the big boss asked them to tell you, but only after they have reframed it, recharacterized it, and added their own slant. Every messenger does this. Whether they do […]

A Young Man Who is Not an Idiot “I’m all for proper research > strategy> objectives > positioning > campaign idea > tailored executions per platform. Until it comes to audio advertising… I’ve been lucky enough to research global audio and radio ad effectiveness, and I’ve become convinced that it’s such a damn powerful channel […]

  “Regarding advertising paying off based on how effectively it is targeted to the wants and needs of the individual… it varies from total SPAM to relevant content. I’m actually a fan of advertising that is artistically interesting, that is entertaining. Really, the acid test being that after you see the ad, do you regret […]

  My partner Leah Bumphrey is currently helping an insurance agent – for free – because he is a friend of a friend. She wrote me about some difficulties she is facing. This was my response. I hope you find it helpful – RHW: Leah, I have one observation and one question: Observation: Insurance agents […]

  If you stumble, just start dancing.