Boisterous Praise for Business Cliches

Business professionals are encouraged to “think outside the box,” while at the same time being admonished by success coaches, consultants and bored journalists for talking inside the box with trite cliches and pithy aphorisms. But there’s no reason to push the envelope on business communication when there is a rich trove of language on the […]Read More

Covid-19 and the Entrepreneurial Revolution

There have been many revolutions in human history. The development of the printing press in the mid-15th century launched the Communications Revolution. The adoption of steam power to machines spawned the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. And the advent of computer technology in the mid-20th century brought the Digital Revolution. In much the same […]Read More

Does the FTX Verdict Signal a New Day for Cryptocurrencies?

Analysts and pundits are applauding the guilty verdicts against cryptocurrency exchange founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried as a new day for digital currencies. But contrary to the Osmond Brothers’ belief that one bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, Bankman-Fried’s conviction on seven counts in relation to misuse of customer funds and the eventual collapse […]Read More

Fort Mose: America’s First Free Black Town

In 1687, a group of eight men, two women and a child traveled by dugout seeking freedom from enslavement in a Carolina colony. They found it in St. Augustine. Four years later, the Spanish King Carlos II issued the first official crown position on runaway enslaved people that made their way to Spanish Florida. In […]Read More

Reconstructing the Past at Fort Mose Historic State Park

How do you build a replica of an 18th-century fort with no historical plans or detailed descriptions? With a lot of research and a sense of history. According to a Florida Park Service report on the Fort Mose reconstruction project, “Since no exact description of the original fort survives, this structure is not an exact […]Read More

Welcome to the Perpetual Holiday Shopping Season

It’s that time of the year again. With ghosts and goblins making their brief appearance before vanishing back into the night, the holiday calendar is filling up. While many are focused on the Big Four — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa – retailers are focused on the shopping trifecta of Black Friday, Small-Business Saturday and […]Read More