Well, how about that for a lesson. As I’m sitting here wondering what to do to lift my business, I found a post about Anshul Samar, a 13 year-old who is the CEO of Elementeo, a company in the business of, as he puts it, “injecting fun into chemistry”. This kid is very articulate, explains his ideas very very clearly, and would beat the heck...

As you probably don’t know, I am a big fan of dogs. Always friendly, loyal, they give you a kind of friendship you just cannot get from humans – but you will only understand this if you have, or have had at some time, a dog. That’s why an article at Computer World, Brown-Nosed, Apple-Polishing Suck-ups and Why CIOs Love Them, caught my...