Getting the Hater Arrested
This article is written with much thanks to the Washington D.C. parks department. 9:30am – 2:00pm: At the Israeli Embassy A good part of my day was already spent at the Israeli embassy in...
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Life at 40: Musings on Turning 40
To celebrate my 40th birthday, I went down a belt buckle and joined a gym for the first time in my life. Not bad. Then I started jotting down some thoughts about the hard-won...
Parental Controls – My “Hashkafa” and What Works for Our Family
Introduction I grew up in the age of BBSes … bulletin board systems. Back in my day, it took about 20 minutes on a 2400 baud modem to download a single 640×480 pixel image...
Popular Science 1872, 1936 – Nothing New Under the Sun!
Google Books has a plethora of old photographs, books, and magazines available for free viewing. This makes it a whole lot easier than looking through microfilm at a library, and you don’t even have...
Law School (and Law Profession) Little Instruction Book
The following is a highly opinionated synopsis about law school and entering the legal profession. It’s meant to read something like Life’s Little Instruction Book and reflects the current state of industry and my objective...
Why You Should Run Your Own Business
My First Business – Selling Gum and Candy on the Bus Inc. Magazine spurred me to write an article I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I’m sure there are also books on...
Looking Religious At Work
What is Now Acceptable Rav Samson Roephel Hirsch wrote in the 1800s in Germany that, if necessary, a Jew could shake the hands of the person of the opposite sex in a business setting....
Always Listen to Your Rebbe
The role of the Rebbe This is one of those anecdotal stories which intersects between Judaism and Patents. Torah observant Jews believe that there was one and only mass revelation where the creator spoke to...
How to Become Rich – It’s Easy . . . and why are there poor people, anyway?
It is often hard to get caught up in the physicality that surrounds us. People tend to think that their hard work will make them rich. But it is not so. My salesman example...
Mark Cuban Draws Me a Cat
In a diversion from building my patent portfolio and usual articles about Supreme Court decisions on business method patents, New York Times videos of me talking about patent and copyright infringement, and even talks on dealing with the U.S....