PETER SHANKMAN
| POSTED ON April 12th, 2012 | 97 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
About to board a flight for 15 hours home to NYC – So I’ll leave you with a contest: Watch the video, and leave your answer in the comments. The best one wins some SWAG.
| POSTED ON April 6th, 2012 | 6 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
So in 2 days, this will happen: That will be almost 16 hours of uninterrupted writing. Blog posts, my new book (due out in January, being published by Palgrave/MacMillan), emails for my newsletter… Heck, perhaps even a note to my future child (not that there’s anything in the works yet, calm down, mom…) But there will be writing. It seems that planes are the only place lately where I can write uninterrupted, without the real world, or the Internet, or my mobile phone, or my cat distracting me. (Squirrel!) Planes are my last bastion of creativity. I’ve got a handful of new blog posts to write, including… A true story of how a six year relationship with a [...]
| POSTED ON February 2nd, 2012 | 10 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
While I’m sitting in my room at the W London, looking out the windows and also zoning out to CNN, it occurs to me – Why don’t hotels simply install flat windows that also have TVs in them – They use illumination-blocking technology that came out ten years ago and is hella cheap now to darken the window a bit the moment the TV is turned on. They save on precious room space, and it looks super-cool. Allows for much, much bigger screens, and when people want to go to sleep, they just shut off the tv, and the curtains come down and darken the room. Am I the only weirdo who thinks this way? What “weird” things can you [...]
| POSTED ON January 13th, 2012 | 81 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
First off: I will not, under any circumstances, reveal the company I mention below until after they’ve made their own announcement, if they ever do, so don’t ask me. I might never mention it. Who knows. Also, some of the information I’m posting here has been redacted. Everyone is always concerned about digital espionage. “My account was hacked!” “I clicked on a bad link!” “Fifty million credit card numbers were stolen!” The fact is, however, that digital espionage is the least worrisome thing for the majority of companies. The chances of your company getting “hacked” and information being stolen is minimal, compared to getting in trouble due to the stupidity of your employees. I was flying home this past weekend [...]
| POSTED ON January 6th, 2012 | 38 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
Hey guys. Live from Newark Airport, it’s a VLOG for Friday, January 6th, 2012!
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