Business Talk

I am at a bar with two or three friends, expected to mingle with strangers in order to network. Instead its much like homecoming in high school: us huddled around a spot watching others do the same. One brave one approaches. He introduces himself, vomits stock questions, and finally offers his business card.

Next month, cleaning out my wallet, I throw away it.

Asshole move, huh? Next time, run through your cell phone contacts and think to yourself, when is the last time you talk this person, or more prudently, called you? More than a month, this hot shot is getting tossed.

The connection was never made.

Zeus’s Wheels.

The documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, suggests that EV-1, the electric car in the mid 90’s, extinction was the result of a number of factors. The film examines GM’s lackluster effort in supporting it, oil’s grassroots effort to suppress infrastructure development (recharge stations construction), Federal Government’s larger tax incentives towards SUVs and heavier trucks, [...]

Business of Politics: Boy Meets World

In an elevator with my mom, at her work, her co-worker asks, “So David, what are going to do in DC?” Half jokingly I reply, “save the world, of course.” I came to DC with a very idealistic goal, but open-minded search to how to save the world. I had suspension it maybe in politics.
It’s [...]