May 2013
14 posts
Isaacson Pomona commencement speech - Business... →
RenMen Rule!
How America Fell And Came Back Again →
Makeup For Men Is No Longer Taboo →
18/8 Fine Men’s Salons - leading the trend for a decade!
Here's Steve Jobs Giving The Best Advice On How To... →
FRB: Speech--Bernanke, Economic Prospects for the... →
Bernanke…sounding like he is promoting the RenMan - Scott
Renaissance Man - Elon Musk Is The World's Most... →
IBM - YouTube - Movie made using just atoms... →
Pretty incredible
ChartGirl | For things best explained with charts →
Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything... →
Jeff Gundlach Ira Sohn Presentation - Business... →
LUMAscape's New Marketing Technology Chart -... →
Mauldin: The QE Sandpile - Business Insider →
Important read…
El-Erian: Tying It Together - Business Insider →
Musashi-style negotiations in business - set the... →
From my good friend, and ex-Navy SEAL - Eric Basu
18-Slide Pitch Deck Lands Payment Startup Dwolla... →
April 2013
6 posts
How To Be Rich — The Push →
Simple analogy. But so true. I don’t know anyone who is successful that does not have the ability to mentally, and physically give that ‘push’…and the ‘extra push’ when it counts.
Ironically, when others see you have the ability to give it the ‘push’, they’ll want to help - because they know you are a winner, and you’ll get the ball...
Dinner At London Duck & Waffle [Photos] - Business... →
The Ultimate Guide To Beef Cuts - Business Insider →
Benjamin Franklin Career Advice - Business Insider →
RenMan+
America's Baby Bust - Busted. Immigrants are the... →
From my good buddy, Eric Basu. Kick ass dude and true 18/8 Man.
March 2013
14 posts
These Charts Reveal The Secrets To Motivation -... →
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Book Publishing 101: What Publishers are Looking...
Everyone—and I mean everyone—is working on a book. For some, it’s just a spark of an idea that hasn’t quite made it to paper; for others, it’s thousands of words socked away in a drawer or saved on an old laptop. Either way, the same question is bound to come up eventually: What does it take to get this thing published?
After years of reading submissions for a literary agency and a Big Six...
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The Frugal Traveler: Affordable spa and salon...
March 11, 2013|By Myscha Theriault, McClatchy - Tribune News Service
Women aren’t the only travelers trying to find the best penny-pinching options for a little pampering. Men have been demanding their own service preferences for some time now, and the industry has stepped up and taken notice. If you’re interested in a more masculine getaway with your best buds, check out some of...
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Gillette Has Paid Kate Upton To Persuade Men To... →
Gillette’s new campaign for the Fusion ProGlide Styler (a trimmer-razor) features Kate Upton, who wants you to know that she doesn’t mind a chest hair on a man, “but definitely not on his back.”
In Gillette’s video, she’s joined by Hannah Simone of TV’s New Girl and actress Genesis Rodriguez at one of those sophisticated cocktail parties where everyone...
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18/8 Fine Men's Salons
18|8 MEN’S HAIRCARE AND GROOMING CENTERS ARE THE REINVENTION OF THE BARBER SHOP PROVIDING HAIR AND GROOMING SERVICES IN A RELAXING ENVIRONMENT FOCUSED ON THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF MEN.
At 18|8, our stylists and staff provide the advice, solutions and consistency men deserve in a wide variety of services and treatments, including haircuts, hair coloring, MANicures, face treatments, scalp treatments...
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Bryan Cain-Jackson: Dave Stewart on Being A... →
Yes! Dave Stewart + my book, “Beyond Genius - The 12 Essential Traits of Today’s Renaissance Men” -Scott
Read the article here
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10 Skills You Need to Be the Next Great...
Every successful entrepreneur had to learn how to be a great manager along the line. These are the attributes that will earn you the chance to become management material.
If you’re not deemed management material, you never get your shot at the big-time. Period. You never get the chance to learn or hone those skills that will enable you to someday start your own business.
...
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Orange County Register - 18|8 Fine Men's Salon at...
By KRISTY CHU / FOR THE REGISTER
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – For years, while she was growing up in Egypt, Nancy Sobhi used to cut and style the hair of her friends and family for fun. Sobhi got the chance to turn that hobby into a career when she met Scott Griffiths, the founder of 18|8 Fine Men’s Salons.
“Once I went and visited the salon, I just fell in love with the whole...
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UCLA alumnus co-authors “Beyond Genius”...
Scott Griffiths (right) stands with Frank Nuovo (middle) and David Stewart (left), two of the men featured in his new book “Beyond Genius: The 12 Essential Traits of Today’s Renaissance Men.”
BY ASHER LANDAU
Scott Griffiths has published best-selling books on art and beer, started a craft beer brand called Rhino Chasers, worked on branding for Fortune 500 companies, lectured in business...
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How Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone... →
Technology entrepreneur and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the audience at South by Southwest, a large conference in Austin, the biggest mistake he’s ever made.
It has to do with hiring the wrong people.
For a long time, Musk says he hired talented people over kind people, but he tries to balance that now.
“[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone’s...
Elon Musk On NYT's Tesla Model S Review →
Elon is a RenMan featured in my book - “Beyond Genius, the 12 Essential Traits of Today’s Renaissance Men”
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WRJN Radio Interview with Scott Griffiths,...
WRJN Radio interview with Scott Griffiths, co-author of “Beyond Genius - The 12 Essential Traits of Today’s Renaissance Men” and CEO of 18/8 Fine Men’s Salons. Exploring the meaning behind the Renaissance Men in this world, historic and modern, from all walks of life..
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Robert Greene - The 48 Laws Of Power - Business... →
In the end, just about everything we do is motivated by power. Whether we’re to obtain it, or responding to someone else’s influence, it’s a constant factor.
Sometimes getting to the top requires bending the rules of conventional morality. Best selling author Robert Greene distills thousands of years of historical evidence and research in his book, The 48 Laws Of Power.
...
February 2013
12 posts
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The United States of Caffeine: 50 States, 50... →
Take a deep breath, America - do you smell that? It’s not the smell of amber waves of grain, it’s the mouthwatering aroma of coffee brewing at some of the country’s coolest roasters, tasting rooms and coffee bars. Unlike some regional favorites, the country’s caffeine fixation is spread far and wide. From a slow bar with a siphon brewer in Alaska to a Miami-based roaster...
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50 Sexy Scientists - Business Insider →
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Anne Marie Slaughter On Sheryl Sandberg - Business... →
When Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter published an essay in The Atlantic titled, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in July 2012, she touched a nerve across generations and among both men and women, setting off a renewed public debate on women’s progress and work-life balance. Continue Reading:...
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The Art Of Doing: How Superachivers Do What They... →
The world’s most productive and successful people aren’t superhuman.
The biggest thing that separates superachievers from everyone else, says Camille Sweeney, co-author of The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do And How They Do It So Well, is that they have found a way to overcome failure.
“Every successful person, just like everyone else on the planet, is going...
The Search for the Genetics of Intelligence -... →
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Cities With The Best-Dressed Men →
Be an 18/8 Man! - Scott
Menswear is a retail segment on the rise, but some cities have been quicker to embrace new style trends than others.
Custom suitmaker Arden Reed found the best-dressed cities in America when it comes to men’s fashion, looking at regional Google search results for “men’s style” and their own figures on apparel expenditures per person.
No big...
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New Mexico Style visits us at 18/8 Albuquerque
New Mexico Style spent their Valentine’s Day at Doug Jones new 18|8 Salon in Albuquerque. Take a look: http://www.kasa.com/dpp/nm_style/features/give-your-man-his-own-nm-style
Give Your Man His Own NM Style
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Maps That Explain The World - Business Insider →
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new york literary agents, literary agents new... →
January 2013
8 posts
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UCI researcher: male, female brains are different...
Reference for upcoming speech at UCI to graduate students exploring the nature/differences of RenMen and RenWomen -Scott ——-
Women should get angry when they read this story, and men should as well, says Larry Cahill, a neuroscientist at UC Irvine who studies what he considers to be the profound differences between the brains of men and women.
But Cahill, who delivers a talk on...
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The Power of the Negative - Abraham Lincoln
As I get ready to give more speeches related to my new book, “Beyond Genius…”, and RenMen, this article on Lincoln and his genius for using the ‘negative’ as a rhetorical device in speaking and writing, should prove a useful resource - Scott
Now that Steven Spielberg’s new film, “Lincoln,” has sparked extraordinary interest in Abraham Lincoln as a behind-the-scenes...
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Book Review: The Scientific Sherlock Holmes |...
This is a good article to post to our new Facebook site for the book - “Beyond Genius…”
- Scott
University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes, the self-proclaimed world’s only consulting detective, is the paragon of clever reasoning, famous for startling leaps of inference. Any of his appurtenances—the deerstalker hat, the pipe, the magnifying glass—is enough to evoke observation and...
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The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of...
Mathematician Ian Stewart’s recent book “In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World” takes a close look at some of the most important equations of all time.
A great example of the human impact of math is the financial crisis. Black Scholes, number 17 on this list, is a derivative pricing equation that played a role.
“It’s actually a fairly simple...
