No More 1st Person Shooters in This House

Ignorant bliss died in our family the same day 17 students lost their lives in a high school in Florida.  My daughter asked why someone would shoot kids in a school. She asked where they got the gun. Her ignorant bliss of these terrible acts shattered in an instant, never to return. We can all […]

Jeff Malec - March 1, 2018

U2 = The Urge to Exist

It’s  hard to believe it’s been 30 years since I first heard the sweeping ballads of U2 on one of my first ever CD purchases – the “Joshua Tree”, but it came back like it was yesterday among 40,000 of my closest friends at the band’s visit to Soldier Field in Chicago. There’s nothing like […]

Jeff Malec - August 13, 2017

Want to Lose 30 lbs – Do This

I weigh less now than I did in high school. How many people can say that?  Now, part of that is that I was pretty thick muscle bound football player in high school when a premium was given to strength versus speed, but it’s also because I dropped 3o pounds over four months last summer, and […]

Jeff Malec - May 31, 2017

How I Missed the Google IPO

[originally posted on the Attain Alternatives Blog, August 2014] Sometime in 2003, I looked down at the FedEx package that had just arrived at the office and saw the silicon valley address of Google. I curiously opened the medium sized box to see what in the world could be inside. What was it?  A black […]

Jeff Malec - May 3, 2017