Category: Notes
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“I’m in. Let’s Cause Some Responsible Chaos”
It rained in Miami this past weekend. Not the usual 20-minute afternoon tropical storm kind, but the all-day, not-going-anywhere kind. So I did what anyone would do with a rainy weekend and time to kill. I went down the OpenClaw rabbit hole. Here’s what happened. OpenClaw Post Mortem It took me a while to wrap…
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Why Running is Good for Business (Travel)
This is a presentation I used as the backdrop for a short internal talk I gave at Paramount in 2022 after a business trip to some of the company’s offices in Europe. TL;DR: the original presentation where I argued that running/walking/exercising was great for business ⤵ The talk was part of an internal initiative called…
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M&A Integration Framework
This was originally posted on my LinkedIn profile, but I’m reposting it here, now that I have a “permanent” home on the web again. TL;DR: the original 2022 presentation I gave at Paramount ⤵ I’ve been involved in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures most of my career – from my early days at Turner during the…
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The Wizard of Rio de Janeiro
Update: My brother and I ended up finding out that not only was our father a Latin GRAMMY-nominated recording engineer, but that he had actually won an award in 2011 after his passing. We contacted the Latin Recording Academy, but learned that replacement physical awards and certificates can only be requested by active industry entities…
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Olga
My grandmother Neiva had a lifelong friend who had escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in what I can only guess was occupied Poland during World War II. She told me that her friend – Olga – was a beautiful, Jewish Polish teenager when she was sent to the camps and because of that she…
