Big brother may be watching
But in this case it is a mythical pizza house. (Includes sound as well)
Anyway, watch this futuristic scene courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union.
By Paul Handover
Tag: Business
The sub-prime crisis
British humour
One aspect of British culture is their dry sense of humour. In terms of satire, for over a decade three people have held pole positions: Rory Bremner, John Bird and John Fortune. WikiPedia has a very good summary.
Bird and Fortune have also recorded a series of ‘interviews’ focusing on some of the idiocies of life.
Here’s a classic about the sub-prime crisis. Slightly dated but no less funny for that.
More from these incredibly, clever guys from time to time.
By Paul Handover
The lessons in Chrysler?
Chrysler, investing, entrepreneurism and common sense.
Many, many years ago I went on a course on starting your own business. It was held in London and caught my eye because just a few months previously I had resigned my sales job with IBM UK Ltd and commenced a journey of being self-employed, in the sense of being responsible for my own income. A 31-year journey that has provided so many riches in a non-financial sense.
Since we are talking about an event so long ago, it is not surprising that few memories are intact about that single day in a smart hotel in the centre of London.
BUT, one thing has stayed with me, and served me well.
Never get involved in a business where you don’t really know the marketplace.
So a recent article in the New York Times (Saturday, 8th August) about Cerebus, the private capital investment company that purchased Chrysler two years ago wasn’t short on lessons for us more down-to-earth guys. Here’s a extract from the interview that Louise Story with the NYT (cool surname, by the way, for a journalist!) did with Steve Feinberg, co-founder of Cerebus, in his smart office on Park Avenue.
Learning from Dogs 