Innovate to Create Your Own Future

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"Alan Kay In the chaotic times in which we seem to be destined to live out our days, predicting the future, never a high percentage game, is a no win proposition.  If this is so, just how do we as business leaders decide on our […]

Triptych: Rooms with a View, Part III

So, this is my favorite of the three. The view is from the writing table in my livingroom, about 2 O'Clock level. Those peaks faintly outlined in the distance lie about twenty miles to the southeast, beyond those framing the other side of Carmel Valley in the foreground. The light and atmospherics change constantly here, […]

The Future Of Selling

As a result of a kind introduction by my good friend David Brock, I recently participated in a fascinating project organized by OgilvyOne Worldwide, called "The Future of Selling." By bringing together a community of interested (and interesting) marketing and sales professionals, it focused attention on how changes in buyer behavior, combined with current and […]

Triptych: Rooms with a View, Part II

Sometimes you need a place of escape. Private. Away. Yours. Across the drive, a bit to the north of the front door of my house in Carmel Valley, I've been fortunate enough to have such a place from which to work when in California, for all these years. Six hundred square feet. Never really refined, […]

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Welcome!

I built this site (in 2004) around the idea that the conventional divisions between professional and personal life are artificial. They don't reflect how we live, work, and play today.

I don't shut down my professional responsibilities (with rare exceptions) on evenings, weekends, or holidays. Our competitive environment doesn't permit that, and I'd get bored.

Further, it occurs to me that if you are interested in doing business with me somehow, you should be interested in Rich Bravman, the person.

So, whether you're an entrepreneur looking for specific ideas on how to put your vision into practice, an investor looking for an experienced advisor or board member, a friend, colleague, or simply someone curious about what a fellow human thinks... Welcome!

Warning: eccentricities lie ahead in these pages. (Even at this late date in 2023, I like it that way.)

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Richard's books

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
4 of 5 stars
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
by Rebecca Goldstein
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn�t My Fault)
4 of 5 stars
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn�t My Fault)
by P.J. O'Rourke
Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics
5 of 5 stars
Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics
by Robert Gilmore
Gone Girl
4 of 5 stars
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
We Can All Do Better
4 of 5 stars
We Can All Do Better
by Bill Bradley
Read this and regain at least a modicum of faith in the presence of wisdom among the leadership class in this world. Unfortunately, Bradley is past his impact moment, and his exemplar of a new way forward ("Americans Elect") foun...

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