Too Late To Be A Child Prodigy? Idiot Savant Carries No Age Barrier. Just Be Ready For Changes. Who doesn’t like a good label. They make things so understandable. Steve Jobs was a ‘genius.’ What else do you call the man who reinvented computers, phones, and music delivery? What did his employees call him when […]
Portland Baby Boomers Retire: Then What?
January 10, 2014 by
One thing is certain with all the baby boomer retirement ideas: No matter what they do, it’ll be wrong. The backlash on what’s taken for granted today, like equal rights, environmental awareness, and women’s right to choose, started from the boomer beginning. Who hasn’t heard racial slurs and been shocked that grandma didn’t know times had […]
Is Mark Cuban Talking To Portland Baby Boomers?
December 22, 2013 by
When a software giant, a businessman, investor, and NBA owner whose name is not Paul Allen gives startup advise, why not listen? Mark Cuban has been everywhere a startup wants to go. The tips come from his book, ‘How To Win At The Sport Of Business,’ and excerpted on entrepreneur.com. Too often Cuban reacts to life […]
Santacon Portland Business Report
December 15, 2013 by
According to the first bartender at the Spirit of 77, the only thing to do in the swarm of Santacon is serve everyone. Really fast. “It doesn’t show well if you can’t handle the surge.” He said it with a confident edge, like it wasn’t his first Santacon. And he was up for the challenge. […]
Boomerpdx Explains Blog Traffic One Way
December 11, 2013 by
Baby Boomers and blogs? It even sounds like a perfect match. So simple yet so elegant, like a Victoria Secret model’s wardrobe. And like that model, your blog needs legs. Bloggers call it traffic. Traffic? They call it traffic, like cars? If you’ve ever had a yard sale, you know the drill.
Boomerpdx Remembers Historian Thomas Vaughan
December 8, 2013 by
Most baby boomers who’ve worked for important companies never meet the big guy. You apply, go through human resources, or the personnel office, meet the department head, co-workers, and go at it for the next few decades. Thomas Vaughan met everyone before they got with the Oregon Historical Society program. He made it personal. How […]
Portland Boomer Thinks About Losing Weight?
December 5, 2013 by
Not For Long Let’s agree that you are thoughtful and considerate, that you know how to do the right thing and make an effort to do just that. So far so good? In addition, since you are a Portland baby boomer, a boomer living somewhere else, or just know boomers, you’ve had time to consider the […]
#1 With A Bullet? Portland And Boomerpdx
December 5, 2013 by
Portland Baby Boomers need to pay attention to Money Journal at moneyjournal.com. They just named Portland the top of their top ten most liked U.S. cities. While that’s not news to the region, it’s still good to show the rest of the country how it’s done. The only drawback is Money Journal called it Portlandia. […]
