In December, I told you I had prostate cancer. In February, I let you know I had completed radiation treatments. After treatments, it takes three-plus months for your body to settle down enough that they can test and see if the treatments worked. That’s happened now, and according to my latest blood test, I’m basically…
When I updated my site, I updated the contact form. Now you have to check “I am not soliciting advertising, contributed articles, or links on this site” or you can’t submit the form. So the morons doing link-farming for contributed articles (which I have never accepted) check that box and then solicit me anyway. Here’s…
Yup. COVID finally got me. I’ve attempted to lead a boring, well-vaccinated life so far, and it worked — until I got on a plane with 200 other people flying back from Scotland. Between a five-hour layover and a two-hour delay, my wife and I were wiped out. So we let our guard and our…
I’m assembling a crack team of regular readers and prospective authors who’d like to participate in the launch of my book Build a Better Business Book over the next two months. What you get: insider perspectives on what’s happening, early access to content, and camaraderie with fellow authors on the same quest, and, within reason,…
I set out to help authors. Fifteen years and 50 books later, I keep hearing the same questions — about everything from how to create ideas to how to select a publishing path to how to do book promotion. So I put everything I knew in one place: my new book Build a Better Business…
Spring is a great time to renew the way you present yourself to the world. So welcome to my new online home. I’m rebranding. If you were subscribed to my former site at withoutbullshit.com, I’ve automatically subscribed you to the new site at bernoff.com. All my future updates will come from here; there will be…
Since I told you all about my cancer treatment, here is an update. I have completed my 28 radiation treatments. Here’s a picture of me inside the enormous radiation machine at Maine Medical Center in Scarborough, Maine. The preparation I got from my physical therapist and my dietitian was extremely helpful. The dietitian also had…
A business leader preparing for a strategic shift begins by gathering resources: preparing for the future, determining and communicating strategy, gathering financial assets, and applying talented teams and workers. But in our personal lives, we rarely think that way. We should. Planning for medical challenges I’m in this situation now. My wife will have shoulder…
These things all happened to me in 2022: There’s no sugar-coating it, all of that sucked. But I have to say, I learned something important. If you build things well over many years: relationships, reputations, integrity — it pays off. A good life has momentum, even if it hits a few potholes. I have never…