Category: Do Not Pass Go

Copy Machine Chaos?

You'd Never Suspect This
You'd Never Suspect This

Here’s one more thing to consider in our efforts to fight identity theft. A Canadian friend sent this to me and you ought to consider viewing this video because it will help you understand that company copy machines contain hard drives.

It costs about $500 to upgrade a copier with software that either encrypts the data or erases it. Most organizations won’t spend this kind of dough. Imagine medical, insurance, financial organizations. Imagine social security numbers, addresses, critical information about your accounts.

The video shows the undercover results, and closes with the punch line – a shipment of used copiers is headed to two overseas countries.

One Bottle Per Person

App For Customer Loyalty?
App For Customer Loyalty?

Customer expectations are a funny thing sometimes. Some people are so hard to please and some are so easy to please and of course, some are in the middle.

“Good morning, can I get you anything?”, from the friendly, smiling Delta flight attendant – Orlando to Atlanta – sitting here in Business class. “May I please have another water, I’ll finish this one quickly. Thank you.”

The Internet has amazing ramifications, many extraordinarily positive. Like right now, I’m typing this jungle jeff blog post before we taxi away from our gate.

I’ll post this, take the cup of ice water and pour it in the sink. Not ready for another water, ice water is too cold, and an open plastic cup of water probably isn’t the best idea during take off.

Delta only loads one bottle per business class passenger. News to me, but I’m just so thankful to be alive that one bottle per person as the best they can do is so trivial, that it hardly seems worth blogging about.

Hardly.

Business class is reserved for Delta’s most loyal customers.

Two Reasons We Don’t Try Harder

They Both Lead To Fear
They Both Lead To Fear

Look, all of us dream big dreams.  This is an endowment from our creator.

And when we were kids, we had no inhibitions about pretending and fantasizing. I mean, we were 100% okay walking around with chocolate smeared on our faces, and we couldn’t give a hoot if our clothes didn’t match.

Heck, we’d even walk around in public, naked. Or wear a smelly diaper. We didn’t care. Not for a nano-second.

But look at us now. Fear paralyzes us. And it all comes down to two simple reasons:

  1. Fear of Failure
  2. Fear of Success

It’s this fear of success that is the stealth robber of our childhood dreams.

We all have within us another endowment. One which needs our attention, before it’s too late.

jungle jeff & The Money Tree

Money Tree?
Money Tree?

We all need some of life’s basics: food, transportation, shelter, insurance, and to help others.

Money, and time (the other currency), lets us do these.

The more money we have the easier it is to buy things and help people.

Two days ago Seth Godin posted this at his blog. It will stimulate how you think about credit and debt, but it is no guarantee you will make good or tough choices.

Article summary: you can borrow money for things that incease or decrease in value.