“Hello darkness, my old friend…” Everybody knows the iconic Simon & Garfunkel song, but do you know the amazing story behind the first line of The Sounds of Silence? It began 62 years ago, when Arthur “Art” Garfunkel, a Jewish kid from Queens, enrolled in Columbia University. During freshman orientation, Art met a student from…

Dear friend: In yesterday’s email, I gave a few examples of how “working for free” is a good thing; and today I want to talk about why it’s not such a good thing. As always, this is one man’s opinion, so ingest these words with a hefty grain of salt. As with just about everything in…

For as long as I can remember, I’ve heard people railing against the idea of “working for free.” My experience with this has mostly been with musicians who get indignant about the idea of a coffee shop wanting halfway decent musicians to play at their joint so they can “get some exposure.” “Down with them,”…

I came across this story on social media this morning about the great Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, that reminds me a lot about how we entrepreneurs are – or need to be. It was written by one of Jackie’s teammates, Rex Barney, and I…

A couple weeks ago I wrote about a documentary we watched about the Flat Earth movement, and how the common belief in a single idea, as wrong as it may be, united all sorts of people from all walks of life. It shows the power of community and how we all crave fellowship with others…