by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I love this video. If you know anything about the city of Buenos Aires or the incredible Argentine author Borges (who went blind at the end of his life — as depicted in the video), you will smile. Even if you don’t, you will still smile. Buenos...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
For years, I have been sending bad emails to my nearest and dearest. Let me restate that. Aside from sending the usual garbage that I create in my last-minute, rushed head, I specifically forward on the particular bizarre/bad emails that random strangers send me....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 10, 2011 | Business, Uncategorized
It’s been a few months since I first wrote about Referral Key, and the comments don’t stop coming to that now-popular post. The Referral Key main guy (founder or ceo or something that escaped me) also weighed in with his highly unbiased opinion. Given the...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 18, 2011 | Productivity, Uncategorized
Maybe you’re not me. Maybe you don’t have websites that you actually want to be live and readable on the Interwebs, including two sites (ClaireDiazOrtiz.com and Twitter4Good.com) that happen to be relevant to a certain book launch rather important to your...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 29, 2011 | Business, Uncategorized
This week, on a random work tangent, I ended up finding out the salaries of the CEOs of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Now, this was not an intentional exercise in shock, confusion and free-floating ire. And yet it turned into one. Let’s look at some...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
CNN news alerts are, hands-down, one of my smartest email subscriptions. In the 2+ years that I have been getting these emailed to me, I have learned a lot. These days, I feel skilled at taking the temperate of the nation, at least as determined by the CNN news alert...