Mike McCready

For a long time, it has been getting harder to achieve the American dream. While average income for a full-time working male, adjusted for inflation, has remained pretty constant since 1973, the top 1% of US earners has gained ground decade after decade. The objective economic data supporting those facts is solid and has been [...]

After taking some video (below) I decided to put my iPad to good use and made a little sign using Keynote. The sign was a HUGE hit. My picture must have been taken a thousand times and I’m not exaggerating. Some people who came a bit later mentioned they’d seen me on the news before heading down. Funny.

Failure is a necessary step on the path to success. As I once heard it put, good judgement comes from making mistakes. Making mistakes is the result of bad judgement. That’s has also been my experience.

While on a walk this morning I was down at Ground Zero and saw the progress. I’ve heard the new Freedom Tower is adding one story per week. It’s great to see this finally getting done after so much time. See the photo below:

I’m very fortunate to be able to live in two great cities. One drawback however is how long it takes to get from one place to the other. Often I fly direct but sometimes for one thing or another I have a layover. Today I had a layover in Madrid and my flight to Barcelona [...]

My neighborhood, Greenwich Village in Manhattan is home to a lot of celebrities. Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and their children live down the street. This morning I’m on my way to the office and I see this big billboard for SJP’s next movie on the side of a building and it occurs to me that they can’t leave home without seeing that and I just wondered what that must be like. “Look kids. There’s mommy!”

Click on any of the images in this post to expand their size. Immediately after the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor Edward Hopper began painting Nighthawks, one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. After this event there was a widespread feeling of gloominess across the country, a feeling that is portrayed [...]

(text en català a continuació) Speaking of “hey look at me!” posts… early last year I thought I wanted to do a series of video podcasts that featured (rather, sort of compared and contrasted) Barcelona and New York. I go back and forth quite a bit so I thought I could get plenty of fresh [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable [...]

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.