Pepper Spray Blog

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“Those *#!? blinking lights”

This is the subject of an email I received a few months back. Finally, the lights in question, formally known as “RRFB”s or Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons, were installed in August, already a few...

Disrupt the Horn 0

Disrupt the Horn

I have thought about automobile and vehicle horns a lot since I started driving. Has there ever been a better example of the human race trying to fit every moment, every message, every emotion...

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Not Newsworthy

My eyeballs popped when I read the top headline in Nation’s Restaurant News this morning on my phone. I’m not kidding. Basic math skills and even the faintest whiff of humanitarian tendencies allow one...

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Regarding Wage Bill HR 582

Last week the editor of a restaurant trade magazine sent me a list of questions related to the Raise the Wage Act (HR 582) she hoped I might answer. I didn’t get to them...

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“Power of the People”

In 2016, I joined a very special group of founders and CEOs called the Tugboat Institute. Earlier this year they interviewed me about using purpose as our key turnaround strategy at Boloco. The original...

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Oh Kindle My Kindle

I have always loved my gadgets. Whether it was the football handheld by Mattel, Atari, the Passport radar detector or my portable video camera from the 80s, or one of the early Apple laptops,...

Hanging onto Inspiration 0

Hanging onto Inspiration

Seth Godin wrote a good blog post today (Friday, May 17, 2019) called: ”Three Times of ‘Forever’.  Here’s a nugget from it… There’s the forever of plenty.This is when we erroneously assume that the...

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Bikram & Gout

Last summer I stopped doing Bikram Yoga because I wasn’t near any Bikram studios for a good chunk of the season. For most of the prior year I had no gout flare ups –...