We Care Green

Its been 4 months now since i mailed a letter to the White House. Was i naive to expect at least an acknowledgement stating something like "Dear Mr. Divon, Thank you for your letter. As you may imagine we receive tens of thousands of letters daily, yet the president cares deeply about each of the senders. A representative will review your letter sometime by next election and may get back to you…” So, I didn’t even receive that… In the absence of a presidential response let me share here my...

Ronen

Mind you before you read the below – I never defaulted on payments to Amex, yet, since my credit rating went down they took the liberty of being really friendly and sent me this email:

Dear Ronen:
We are contacting you to be sure you do not have any surprises when you use your card. In this difficult economic environment, we all need to make choices about how we spend and save. For us, that means carefully reviewing the spending and debt profiles of our Cardmembers - and...

Ronen

Want a reminder for feeling good? Make your passwords contain positive words… e.g. t0daysAgr3atDay, or sm1leN0w…. Something positive. This way, whenever you log into your computer or to whatever else you need passwords for, you will have a reminder you need to smile and be appreciative more often…

Ronen

Case study – my wife has a Suburban – a USA made car. She likes this car despite its being a gas-hog and despite various mechanical issues we had with it in the past. She likes it so much that the car we have now is the third one we leased over the past decade from Chevrolet.
Recently the car started having issues yet again. Trying to deal with Chevy in order to get it fixed has turned out to be a nightmare – facing customer service people who could care less, and administrators who cannot...

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The main problem of humanity is… short memory…. And by short memory I am not referring to not remembering our previous lives, which would have probably been way too uncomfortable for most of us to face. I am referring to not remembering, and not associating the pain of loss we all experienced in one form or another, with the pain and loss of others. This sort of not remembering allows us to grief our loss of 3000 souls on 9/11 but then go and destroy lives of others in a foreign country under one...

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