by Ryan on August 31, 2007
Exciting times they are when we can stop watching reruns of Friends and focus on some real world combat. College football kicked offs off for real this weekend and the Tennessee vs. Cal game is surely the one to watch – Saturday night at 8pm EST on ESPN. The only other show on TV that even compares to the mindless joy of watching football was Man Versus Wild, but Bear Grylls‘ killer show was apparently kicked off of The Discovery Chanel and replaced by some backpack and tent wielding pansy that calls himself “Survivorman“. This guy is a real goon and the real outdoor survival expert, Bear, needs to be put back on DSC full time.
UPDATE: Bear came back in 2009 in full force. He’s the craziest guy on TV.
by Ryan on August 15, 2007
I got a great piece of advice from a custom furniture maker today. He commented on how high school popularity contests carry over into real world business. It’s not enough to just have the brains and the bright ideas, being able to convince others both inside and outside your organization to vote you for class president and thereby actually winning the high school election race is a far more determing factor in business success than brains and smarts. I would love to be able to argue against this point and then I realized that it came from an artisan who was basically telling me that his creative skills have nothing to do with how his furniture sells; it’s the salesmanship and networking that actually permit him to make a living off his craft. A interesting reality of both the business and art worlds.
by Ryan on July 2, 2007
You know the market is gonna rally when all the business news is about a phone. It’s kind of like knowing that the market is going to rally when we have a major war going on in the Middle East and the world’s most popular headlines are Lindsay Lohan in rehab and Paris Hilton in jail. Disclaimer: This is totally conspiracy theory BS here but somehow it seems to me like when the media focusses on the rough and not the fluff, that the Dow moves down and when all we hear about is fluff and $600 cell phones, that the market moves up.
UPDATE: USA Today actually ran a story with this premise in late 2009.
by Ryan on June 27, 2007
Just a quick comment here on the dot, dot, dot…It’s superiority in communication when compared to the period (.) has become so apparent to me that I had to write a quick post about it…I love the fact that it allows one to be brief in his/her communications so as to say…I am on the go (perhaps writing from a mobile device) and I do not have time to make complete sentences or thoughts and so I will use the dot dot dot on you and get the business taken care of swiftly…I think the dot dot dot should make it’s way into our elementary schools as an accepted form of punctuation that’s taught to all.
by Ryan on May 30, 2007
Fast Money, which airs nightly on CNBC, is the best financial TV program today. These guys are really good, the four of them together can definitely trump Jim Cramer. The regular contributors are each specialists in their own market sectors – retail, semi-conductions, oil and gas, commodities, and semi-conductors, to name a few. This show is a really nice source for finding companies that you should research further and fully investigate. Use it as a supplement to IBD to find your next hot investments. Start with a top level sector analysis and find a best of breed company with little to no debt and solid cash flows and revenue growth prospects.
12.22.09 UPDATE: I don’t watch the show since Dylan Ratigan and Jeff Macke left the program. It’s just not the same anymore.
