Month: July 2005

“Robert, they can?t eat you!” My rules for survival.: Rule #4 of Bob Parsons’ life rules is: “if it doesn’t work, they can’t eat you.” Man, he’s not kidding. Keep some perspective people. It’s all small stuff. Lighten up and have some fun.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. – Maurice Maeterlinck” That’s so sad it’s funny.

This is an interesting story. Qualcomm started from very humble ideas: On NPR, today, they discussed the beginning of Qualcomm: NPR : Qualcomm Founder’s Son to Assume Control of Company It is turning 20 years old this month. It had no particular product in mind, just something in the wireless business. Irwin Jacobs wanted to…

In today’s New York Times, they covered corporate blogs. They mentioned Bob Parsons’ blog. It was interesting in the story because he didn’t pull any punches in his blog. He gives his opinions on the world without second guessing what kind of effect it may have on his business. That’s inspiring and not typical of…