This past September, on one of the local news programs, one of the commentators made a passing remark during the sports segment. The date was 9/11 and the Mets ...
Category: Random Connections
A Centennial Connection
By: Dan Rosenberg October 1st marks the hundredth anniversary of the controversial 1919 World Series pitting the Cincinnati Reds against the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox were ...
Random Connections – Closing a Box Opened 50 Years Ago
In my early teens, I played in a monthly poker game with five friends. Our high stakes betting consisted of chips worth pennies, nickels, and dimes. All of us, ...
Synchronicity
The definition of synchronicity is “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.” Random Connection stories certainly have a synchronicity aspect to ...
Meeting Under Canal Street in New York City
In the Spring of 2017, my business partner arranged for us to meet Adam Alter, a marketing professor at NYU. Adam had written a book, Irresistible, that addressed ...