Confidence & Freedom

Singing In The Rain

Thumbnail image for Singing In The Rain by Michael Katz October 14, 2011

It was raining yesterday morning when I left the house to go running. Not sort of raining, either. I’m talking full out, full blown, Cecil B. DeMille* raining. The kind where you drive your kids to the bus stop even though it’s directly across the street. The kind where you hesitate at the door of [...]

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No Way Out

Thumbnail image for No Way Out by Michael Katz July 29, 2011

“What’s ‘Blup-Gen?’” I’m guessing you’ve never had that question asked of you. I, however, hear it about once a week and always from a complete stranger. “Blup-Gen” (accent on the Blup) is the way most humans choose to pronounce the vanity license plate on my car: BLUPGN. They see the plate. They try and figure [...]

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Ignore the Competition

by Michael Katz July 28, 2011

I read a terrific blog post yesterday about musician John Mayer visiting his alma mater, Berklee College of Music in Boston. Among the many interesting things he said, this point jumped out at me:   “Nobody’s music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn’t have made [...]

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