Ted's Take

Wonderful video. Kudos to Jimmy Fallon for pulling this one off. It has a relevance to us all. “Lazy Sunday” helped launch YouTube as a phenomenon. Watch this one…Live!!! Fun.

I have a friend His name is Victor Thay. He is a fund manager at Fidelity in Boston.

He grew up in Canada and he loved hockey. We always talked about the Capitals and Bruins and Alex Ovechkin.

He was interested in investing in Revolution Money. We had several long meetings together. We had several dinners. Then we became friends. He passed on the investment but was very helpful to me none the less. He was just a great guy.

I lost track of him over the last 6 months or so. When I looked at the standings today and saw if the season ended we would play Boston in the playoffs, I dashed him off a note via email. I wanted to trash talk with him and also to invite him to a game with me.

I sent the email; the email bounced right back to me.

I though “hmmm…maybe he left Fidelity?”. So, I Googled his name and this is what came up. My friend Victor Thay passed away. He died at the age of 35 years old. I am stunned. I feel so sad. I didn’t know of his passing and I don’t even know how he died.

Life is short. Play hard. RIP my friend.

I blog to as many people as I can and I am transparent and accessible. I publish my email address. I get lots of input and lots of comments on my blog and Facebook page. Thank you. I encourage it.

Sometimes when someone leaves a comment that is tough minded or is a rant or is mean spirited I will try to reach out to that person by email to chat. To follow up on a concern or try to understand where that person is coming from. It is being courteous and curious and I might learn something via our interaction.

And almost always that person who left that comment has provided us with a bogus email account. And that person is anonymous and it is a fake account.

I think that shows no courage and equally less tact and is not being a good net-i-zen.

Why are you afraid of leaving a name or real email address but you are not afraid to come and comment to your heart’s content on my blog? Enlighten me? I don’t get it. Isn’t it a two way street?

Apple is really fighting with Google.

Apple used to fight with Microsoft.

Microsoft hates Google.

Xerox used to hate Apple.

Apple struggles to partner with anyone.

Google will partner with anyone til it wins.

Microsoft says we are open as long as we win.

Microsoft used to hate Apple.

Google and Microsoft both kinda wanna play with Facebook.

Facebook will soon hate someone. Twitter?

And round and round it goes.

Read this great article in the NY Times.

The NY Times hates the Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal hates the NY Times.

Peace.

Click here…Laugh out loud.

I loved reading this article. I never looked at it this way.

I am a healer. I try to make everyone happy.

As I have grown up a bit I have come to realize that there are basically some folks that can’t be happy, they revel in their unhappiness.

This article posits that you need to just cut that cord, fire unhappy people and move on. That is an ingredient to make for happy institutions. I think I agree. I will send this writer a copy of my book “The Business of Happiness”. I bet it will be helpful for future articles.