The website page all the world screws up
Published: Wed, 11/15/23
Here's something that makes me want to commit an atrocity. I sign up for someone's newsletter, or a free eBook, or whatever, and after doing so I get…
The Happy Earner
I send out value-packed emails about earning income online, which I've been doing with great success since 2010. I would have saved myself a lot of agony and frustration if I'd had the information people on this email list receive every day!
How I make people do what I want
Published: Tue, 11/14/23
I don't give them a choice. Full-fledged websites are great, and you need one. But sometimes they're a little too great -- they give your visitor so…
I just paid a bribe and I'd do it again
Published: Mon, 11/13/23
Last night we'd just returned to our hotel here in Las Vegas but would need to leave again in an hour. So I asked the valet guy: if you know someone…
I'm making a movie
Published: Wed, 11/08/23
I'm headed to Las Vegas for a few days, and while there we'll be having lunch with the guy who got me into the movie business. Not surprisingly, he's…
How many Americans aren't brain dead?
Published: Tue, 11/07/23
The bad news stories are so relentless sometimes that I understand why some people finally just give up. The obstacles are too great, the bad guys are…
No joke: how to get anything you want
Published: Tue, 10/31/23
How to Analyze People on Sight -- now that's a great book title. That was what struck me when I first heard about Elsie Lincoln Benedict, a popular…
My discovery in the Columbia Univ library
Published: Mon, 10/30/23
In the late 1990s, while I was working on my Ph.D. at Columbia, I happened to be looking around inside the stacks and came upon a mysterious bo . When…
The war on the past continues
Published: Thu, 10/26/23
We just spent a beautiful day in lovely Newport, Rhode Island, which I had never visited before. I highly recommend it. I couldn't help noticing,…
Woods chastened, chided by readers
Published: Wed, 10/25/23
Yesterday I sent out my case against old movies. As I e pected, old-movie aficionados wrote to me. As I did not e pect, at least one of them has me…
Old movies are terrible
Published: Tue, 10/24/23
Three-quarters of you will be angry. You will try to change my mind. It cannot be done. Now look: I occasionally enjoy an old movie. We watched some…