Would you rather be Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
I would rather be Steve Jobs because he’s so much cooler, so much happier, so much more inspiring. He’s Harvard University commencement address I wrote about here, is one of the deepest messages I’ve ever read, and the way that Jobs described his life into three concise lessons is potent. On some websites about the […]
Free Hug Campaign
I received an email out of the blue from a life coach, Jeannette Maw, whom I contacted last year when I was going through an introspective period. Her core teaching is the Law of Attraction, a universal law that is the way the universe operates, whether we believe it or not. And only now am […]
School for Scoundrels – Nice Guys Graduate Last
Just spotted a new movie which looks like Wedding Crashers meets Hitch, and from the director of Old School, responsible for a number of Frat Pack movies. There does seem to be a trend for Hollywood to make more aggressively guy-friendly movies in recent years. This one in particular looks really good and hopefully wakes […]
Dating Coach responds to critics in Sunday Times
This is a response I wrote to the Editor of the Metro section of the Sunday Times, in response to readers’ feedback published here. Being a dating coach is a part-time interest, and my primary occupation is online research. My online dating research project has been widely covered since 2004 in various media ranging from […]
Sunday Times readers respond to my feature in the Metro
As you may or may not know, I was featured in the Sunday Times Metro section (Gauteng only) on 10 September 2008. This interview was done on the previous Thursday, and there was a quick photo shoot in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Well, I just came back from a week in Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, where I attended the first-ever […]