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 met some executives from Axel Springer for breakfast a few years ago and as we sat down they handed...

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 wrote a LinkedIn post last week saying that Bloomberg doesn’t tend to rehire people. Jason...

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. Generative AI cannot write what hasn’t been written. This is a subtle but profound truth the tech industry...

Imagine winning a Pulitzer Prize without knowing you entered. That’s evidently what happened to Bloomberg News, according to an account by Lachlan Cartwright in the newsletter Breaker Media. Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from...

My father leans on aphorisms to express his opinions. We were at the beach last week when one of his grandkids lamented that they had applied for a job that was going to require hard work. Dad piped up: ”You can’t learn to swim without getting your head...

Some people can’t claim a single friend. Then there is Rob Lawless.  In a bid to find friends, Rob has met with 7,254 people. It’s part of a quest to meet a total of 10,000. Rob celebrated the 10th anniversary of the journey last week. He shared...

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 dad got a combination lock for gym class when he started high school in 1940. He used it for forty...

There’s been a dinner party revival in Manhattan in the past several years.  A have half a dozen friends who regularly host, sometimes in their homes and sometimes in restaurants. And I know of many more people who organize suppers.  I remember my...

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 met Kyle Kazanjian-Amory, CEO and founder of Don’t Tell Comedy, at a show he hosted in a loft in New...

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....