Michael Ovitz has something he calls the Sunday List. Ovitz founded the powerhouse talent agency CAA in 1975 and later went on to a successful career as an investor and venture capitalist. He was successful because he made it his business to meet as...

In 1983, Mike Bloomberg unveiled a desktop computer that would revolutionize financial markets. Known as “the terminal,” it was instantly recognizable because of an iconic keyboard that included yellow keys for each major market. Something largely...

I gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Professional Speechwriters Association in Washington, DC last week. It seemed both presumptuous and absurd to accept an invitation from David Murray to speak to professional speechwriters.  I have only written...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. My father turns 98 today. We are blessed that he is mentally sharp and physically active. His memory...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. In 2011, Marc Andreesen published a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled Why Software is Eating the World....

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. Today is the seventh anniversary of the passing of my friend and former colleague, Richard Yamarone....

This was my first Father’s Day without my dad.  It’s been two months since he passed at the age of 99 after a brief illness. Today would normally be a day I’d drive down to have lunch with my parents.  We’d probably be talking about the Knicks...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. I just learned there’s a WhatsApp group chat for Romanian startup founders living in New York. ...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The physical world is governed by Newton’s laws of motion. The online world has its own laws and axioms,...

Sign up to receive Surface Area or follow me on Linkedin or Twitter. Book a meeting here to talk about ghostwriting from my agency, Principals Media. The premise of Masterclass is experts teach you how to do what they do. The fabulous new episode with...