It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a GREAT tool to COMMUNICATE with the various stakeholders in their BUSINESS and build a REPUTATION for thought leadership.

I THINK we all have our demons and our various SHORTCOMINGS, and it WOULD be NICE if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.

I THINK the only POSITIVE thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the SPREAD of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued WRITING about them from my various places of EXILE.

I think that when I'm TELLING a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that HAPPEN in the story, then that's just the very THING that the story is as opposed to my LOOKING for avenues of difference in one story. They just REALLY do exist. For me, anyway.

Our RELATIONS with the VARIOUS INDIAN tribes CONTINUE to be of a pacific CHARACTER.

I went to a really diverse and WONDERFUL school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty GREAT, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still HATED high school. It's just a rough, rough PERIOD in one's life.

One of the THINGS that I LOVE about Robert Altman's movies is that, really, a Robert Altman movie is just a bunch of SHORT films about various PEOPLE told at the same TIME.

I usually have a GENERAL idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've THOUGHT LONG and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I CHOOSE the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.

The customer WANTS what the customer wants - when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it. And if you want to build a big business, and you want to be meaningful to a big, BROAD group of customers, you need to THINK about how you're going to meet them in the VARIOUS places where they MIGHT expect to see you.

I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that TRACK people's VARIOUS rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm CURIOUS, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's REALLY the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.

Some TRAVELERS collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring HOME a PENCIL from the various places I VISIT.