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  • First look at Business Class Tarot!

    COMING FALL 2018

    Are you a business person, entrepreneur, or maker?

    Do you work where product meets brand? Where data and money become one?

    BUSINESS CLASS TAROT™
    See the Present — Change the Future

    Tarot cards have centuries of wisdom about human nature and power dynamics, hidden behind obscure symbols and outdated worldviews.
    BUSINESS CLASS TAROT brings the Tarot’s deep knowledge and interactive format into our world of global connection, massive scale, and brutal competition.
    Artist Jamin Hoyle’s beautiful, surreal images evoke the rush, despair, and joy that inform and derail life’s major decisions.
    Designed and with guide by author Anthony Dobranski.

  • My first interview!

    I got to talk about my upcoming novel The Demon in Business Class with the great guys at B&M Baked Podcast. We discuss the story, the background, the editing process, support from other writers, and even the convention-sales business model.
    My five-minute interview starts at timecode 30:21 – or listen to the whole thing, to hear from many other great authors too!
    http://bandmbakedpodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-376-connecticon-2016/
     

  • Hire the quirky!

    David Brooks’s recent plea to our nation’s employers struck me deeply, resonating with both my personal history and my professional experience.
    Not that I want you to skip the column, but in case you’re pressed, Brooks asks our nation’s employers to seek new hires who are more passionate than perfect, who are singular and irregular not conventionally well-rounded — not only for the health of their own companies, as counter-intuitive as that may seem, but for the health of our nation.
    I despair at his reception. The disincentives are too powerful. No one who vets resumes is encouraged to seek the quirky; and if the quirky fail, few will question how the institution might have helped them succeed — blame is faster and easier. And, let’s admit, many jobs have nothing in them that appeals to restless creative intellects, save payment and the promise of something “down the road” — and are usually managed by people who themselves found that promise to be a mirage.
    But still, it might happen. I share a professional anecdote, adding my small breath of wind to Brooks’s great sails.
    In 1999, AOL’s Hong Kong office could not manage to find a graphic designer, and it was affecting our production schedule. When we finally confronted the HR people, face to face (a lesson in itself, about the limits of email), they explained there was a policy that everyone hired as the head of a department had to have several years’ experience.  (more…)