Category: Writing
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40 Years of Tax Writing
I was living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, while working for an investment banking firm headquartered in Manhattan. For convenience, I flew out of Bader Field in Atlantic City to LaGuardia Airport from my second home in Ocean City. It might sound like a cushy gig when I write it that way, but it was not. I…
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My web site updated for 2022
Last night and this morning I reviewed, edited and updated all of the 46 pages on my web site. This does not include the blog posts section that total about 2,000, compiled from various sources since the middle 1990s. But it does include details to address the causes of business model failures we incurred this…
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Does this marketing strategy make sense?
I’ve been a subscriber to The Wall Street Journal for almost 40 years. I started way back in college, about age 19, after responding to a special offer to students. While I had already cultivated an interest in current events, reading the publications of Time, Esquire, Popular Science and The Wall Street Journal really helped…
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The best advice
The best advice I can offer locally to help improve our world: 1. Get a local library card. 2. Get the Libby app for your smartphone or other device. 3. Get on the waiting list to borrow popular titles. 4. Take advantage of audiobooks; most of us have more listening time available than reading time.…
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Say thanks more often in business
The excerpt below comes from a post on social media by a business mentor. I realize that I don’t say thanks often enough. It’s not that I’m not appreciative but rather that I’m not communicative enough on things that I consider emotional or fluffy. In other words, for me it’s a ‘guy thing’. This works…
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Spelling matters
I am surprised at how many people argue that spelling and language skills in general do not matter as long as the message is communicated. Words do matter. Language matters. Etymology matters. Spelling matters. I’ve put out thousands of pieces of public writing over a career that began with a newspaper column in the early…
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Reality has a liberal bias
A friend shared this graphic that appears to have over 2 million views online. That’s encouraging considering all that we are learning of the fake news industry and international propaganda efforts through fake news. I do not know the original source. I commented that conservatives would likely say that those mainstream sources listed as “great…