I spent a night in Baltimore a few weeks back on the way to New York.  I have never spent any time in Baltimore, and most of my impressions of...

There is a big difference between being specialized and being pigeon-holed. Specialized has a positive connotation.  You are so good at the thing that you do that people seek you...

Most of us, when we think of a peaceful life, mean an easy life.  A life without worry or trouble or heartache.  There is a difference between easy and peaceful,...

Below is a picture of my MacBook Pro.  You will notice the dent and the accompanying bubble in the aluminum.  This happened when I was traveling on Monday.  My bag...

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a company called Lush.  Lush is a global retailer in the business of hand-made cosmetics.  I had a look around their site...

How important is reputation? I have been having an internal debate about this since a conversation a few days with a guy I do some work with.  There was a...

This phrase has always bothered me. Lots of kids go around saying “Oooh, you said a bad word.”  What ignorant parent teaches their kids to say these things? Certainly some...

I pay a lot of attention to things my wife says about business and shopping.  She has a great knack for seeing things in a way that I could never...

I have been in a lot of meetings and planning sessions where the focus was on understanding the big picture.  Where will we be in a year, three years, five...

I listen to a number of podcasts as a part of my daily exercise routine, as well as when I am driving around town or traveling.  It’s a great way...

I was listening to the podcast from TED Global by Tim Harford on trial and error and the God complex.  The basic premise of the podcast is that there is...

I am on my way to Memphis today, and we were saddled with a maintenance delay out of Raleigh this morning.  This was the first flight out of Raleigh this...

I was reading re-reading The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry today and a section of text jumped out at me that had not before.  There is a section where Mr....

A lot of people ask me what tools I use for particular parts of my work.  Here is a list of tools I use every day to help bring sanity...

The further along I get in my venture, the more I realize how important knowing what I am good at (and as importantly what I am not good at) is....

One of the things I would like to see from Twitter is the ability to redirect traffic from one account to another.  For instance, if I owned @scottbarstow and @sbarstow,...

As the hottest summer ever (OK maybe not, but it sure feels like it) rolls on, here are my must-reads for the month of August.  I tend to be reading...

I am (obviously) not in show business or music, and so there are times when I tend to think that people that are very famous have stumbled into it.  They...