Entries from November 2007

November 28, 2007

Bonds with bosses and initial thoughts on survey

I was checking out the December HBR over the Thanksgiving weekend while I was in Richmond visiting the dentist. He’s in dental school and has a ton of tests this week and next, so we spent a lot of time in Barnes and Noble and various coffee shops. I was struck by the opening paragraph [...]

November 27, 2007

King Corn

Thanks to Cameron for pointing out this new movie, King Corn, that goes into the evils of corn in technicolor. I’ve put it on my netflix list.

November 26, 2007

Kummerspeck and other tidbits on eating

Burger King is the client I work on, so I’ve been immersing myself in the history and culture of eating and food. I just finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. I think I read an article he did for the NY Times that inspired me earlier this year to organize people in my office [...]

November 24, 2007

AWOL

I’ve been absent for far too long. But at least several events have come to pass in that time that I can write about. I’m now two months into a new gig at CP+B. I moved to Miami. My divorce is 99.9% dunzo.
In August, I got a call from Crispin. Colin Drummond (who I used [...]