Todd Lyden

I hate being a nitpick. But you Linkedin users who are using your business email to signup and use the platform might be in for a rude awakening. You DO NOT OWN that email. You WILL LEAVE that position someday. And when it happens, man... I'll let Andrew Brandt explain it much better than I , but how hard is it to just use your personal email?

I like to think that most people think of me as a pretty happy person. I am, for the most part. I went through some 360 Leadership training earlier this year and did some goal orienting and yada yada yada. Anyhoo, the end result was some good introspection. One thing that occurred in the outside looking in was that I actually have a lot to be happy about and gratitude is something to be shared and enjoyed. Not to be bragging, not to be a show-off, just to say "I'm happy, and thankful." Did you know that they can tell if you are depressed by analyzing your Facebook? https://www.wired.com/story/your-facebook-posts-can-reveal-if-youre-depressed/ So, I saw something call the 100DaysofHappy and of course there are 365daychallenges, you name it. I decided to challenge myself to share at least one thing every day that makes me happy. I'd LOVE to know what makes you happy too. Use the hashtag #365daysofhappyfortodd (seriously, no one is using it). Shar...

I've got this crazy idea. I think Marvel left the playing field open in the post "Avengers:Endgame" landscape for a new super-team. Back in the pre-Netflix days, there was a super team called "The Defenders." It's not much of a spoiler to disclose that Dr. Strange has come out intact after Endgame (they've announced a sequel movie). So right out of the gate you have the first member of this team up as you can tell from the comic cover. The second member, who always has trouble being in Marvel films due to rights issues with Universal is Mark Ruffalo's Hulk. He is a little different after the movie, but still available and would be a fantastic addition. The odd-man out in the cover is Namor the Submariner. Marvel has claimed that they wanted to make a version of this for years, but it was buried in the Fox deal because he was always lumped in with the Fantastic Four. I have never liked the idea and now that DC has their Aquaman...

I have not done a movie review post since 2016, but I thought I would take a look back at 2018 and see how I did with the US movie box office. I posted in order the movies by US take and was amazed how many I did not bother or haven't seen as of yet.  1              Black Panther -    while we shouldn't be surprised considering the pedigree and the resources behind this picture, it is still remarkable how successful this movie is on virtually every level. Yes, it does have some shoddy CGI towards the end and the finale battle doesn't quite work or feel quite right, but otherwise as the recent Oscars bear out- the individual parts all worked in such concert it is amazing to think that this was only the third feature from the director.    2              Avengers: Infinity War - a multi-year exercise over different franchises and...

via GIPHY I can't believe I'm finally writing this but why not? Hillary is so tone-deaf to how she lost, I don't need to read her book to understand how Trump was able to beat her with or without Russian assistance. Let's just look at the county where I work which is quintessential rural North Carolina and increasingly representative of rural America. At the end of the post, you will find the results of the last six elections going back to 2000. EXCEPT for Bush's re-election year in 2004 (which you will notice was VERY close), the DEMOCRAT has carried the county by at least a "clear majority." UNTIL this past election. That's right. A county that clearly went for Gore in 2000, Obama TWICE (with even an increase in votes for his re-election), CLEARLY rejected Hillary Clinton. Now before you turn this into a Clinton thing. Be clear: Bill Clinton CLOBBERED Bush in 1992 in Bladen with 55% of the vote and then repeated that statistic against D...

Seriously, there are times when I wish I weren't so jaded about the state of what happens on the internet. Here are the results when you run that sentence through Google:  https://www.google.com/search?q=I+wish+I+weren%27t+so+jaded+about+the+state+of+what+happens+on+the+internet.&oq=I+wish+I+weren%27t+so+jaded+about+the+state+of+what+happens+on+the+internet I ran that same sentence through several FREE online plagiarism detectors. Thankfully, Quetext did not find a copy. Searchenginereports was 100% clean. Even NoPlag.com came back ok. Why do I ramble about this? Because I have found yet one more example of "re-worded" plagiarism of one "business consultant" of another's work.  I won't tell you where I found these examples, but based on the dates of the sites, this paragraph came out first in 2015:  "The definition of success is a very personal one. It’s unique to each individual and only they can know if they’ve reached it. Unfort...

Photo by Alvaro Serrano Dear Founder/Marketing Head/Product Development/Customer Funtime Lead, I am just writing this vague and boilerplate email to repond to the Nth Billionth email I've received from one of you with regards to your freemium, SAAS product/app of choice. Look, if I had questions or concerns about your product, I am a smart enough guy to find the email, contact page, or bot that you call a chat module to get an answer. If you want feedback, you really do need to give me enough time to actually use your product. Emailing me a mere day or two after I have only signedup for the product is not enough time for me to evaluate something. It finally occurred to me that you are like the waitress who comes back to the table right after dropping the food and asking if I like it before I've even begun to chew. So please, stop. Just don't bother. Use your email for advertising or something else, but pestering a potential client like this is a pretty good ...