Hiking Adventures in the San Francisco Peninsula and Beyond
Spring Blooms It’s Spring. The sun is shining. It’s getting warmer. Birds are chirping. Time for digital Spring cleaning. After amassing more than ten thousand unread emails in my personal email box (yes, I probably need a better SPAM filter), there was only one sensible solution: delete all unread emails that were more than a few weeks old. If it … Continue reading Digital Spring Cleaning
https://anchor.fm/john-pavolotsky I am experimenting with a new platform. Let me know what you think (and if you have suggested topics). Thank you!
Olivetti Exhibit, Pisa (2019) Innovation is everywhere. During an October 2019 visit to Pisa, one of the great university cities of Europe, if not the world, I saw a poster (pictured above) for an international exhibition titled: “OLIVETTI @ TOSCANA.IT, Territorio, comunità, architettura nella Toscana di Olivetti. Recall, perhaps, Adriano Olivetti, the Italian industrialist, of typewriter, calculator, … Continue reading Innovation
Let’s start with the “science.” Professional negotiators know about (and how to create and execute) negotiations plans (opens, fallbacks, accepts, walks positions), BATNAS (best alternative to a negotiated agreement), etc. They know what is and is not negotiable. They know the relevant market. They understand timing. They know how to listen, actively. You cannot learn … Continue reading The Art and Science of Negotiations
If you want to see the future, visit Japan. Pepper, a semi-humanoid robot from Softbank Robotics, greeted us in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Shinjuku in October 2016. On it was mounted a tablet (iPad?), displaying information in an interactive manner. Unfortunately, we could not discern any other capability. About a week later, on our last full … Continue reading Future-Proofing Work
Floyen, Bergen, Norway It is unfortunate that the act of learning and mastering a new language is generally viewed as a chore and not an opportunity. As for me, the first new language I learned was English, starting my formal (and informal) studies soon after I arrived in the United States in 1979, from the … Continue reading The Accidental Polyglot
The LBJ Master Biography (Volumes I-IV) - Caro From time to time, I am asked to suggest business and/or law books. For some reason, law books are less interesting. My favorite remains The Firm (Grisham). The Pelican Brief is not bad either. I have enjoyed some of the more specialized books, arguably not for the … Continue reading Top Business Books
The Peninsula Hiking Club 