DeDominic & Associates

08/26/2026

Q? How do you know when your company is mega successful?
A! When you have a settlement on a legal and regulatory matter exceeding billions, and it still doesn't bankrupt your co!

Meta's $17 billion child safety settlement — Meta agreed to a landmark settlement with a coalition of U.S. states over allegations tied to teen social media addiction on Instagram and Facebook, ending the closely watched trial and committing the company to sweeping safety changes on both platforms.

This is such a fascinating case. How much parental responsibility belongs here too? How will they "compensate the victims"? What will they do to reduce the addict-ability here? And how does this affect other countries?

08/21/2026

There’s no magic in the plan! The magic is in the planning.

08/20/2026

My senior citizen, horses enjoying a little foot spa in the hot August days. Our pasture is being groomed so we can plant grass seed in the spring last year. We made a huge effort to eradicate all the tumbleweed that is also called Russian Thistle, not to be confused with the beautiful Russian sage.

08/09/2026

Good news for everyone concerned about cancer.

08/09/2026

For my history buff literary friends. What do these phrases all have in common? (See comments)

07/25/2026

COGS = $10k
Cost of Labor approx $1500

I’ll need to work on pricing. lol

07/17/2026

Smokey air today. Look at all these forest fires! That’s Oregon, Washington, Northern California and Idaho. Dozens of fires.

07/17/2026

During the month of August, please check out my friends new substack. She's a remarkable CEO, woman, conversationalist with WIT & WISDOM. I think you will enjoy her sanguine outlook, especially if you are working on your second or third career.

Timeless By Design embraces the notion that chronological age is only one data point along the spectrum of what makes us human; that the traits that are truly important are evergreen in nature and therefore both ageless and…well…Timeless! Click to read Timeless By Design, by Diana M. Wilson, a S...

05/01/2026

A field trip in the backyard for the horses and donkeys today it’s a gorgeous day and there is endless amounts of weeds and grass to eat

Isaac is a little anxious because Phoebe keeps going away and his precious Donkeys go away too and he can’t see well enough to figure out how to get out of the gate that Phoebe goes in and out of all the time today

04/09/2026

Here's one of my favorite books to recommend to most new clients and all the experts I know.

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005) is about the power of "thin-slicing" — our unconscious mind's ability to make rapid, accurate judgments using very little information.
The central argument is that snap decisions made in the blink of an eye are often just as good (or better) than decisions made after lengthy analysis. Gladwell calls this "rapid cognition" — the kind of thinking that happens behind the scenes, below the surface of conscious awareness.
Key themes include:

The adaptive unconscious — a mental system that processes the world quickly and quietly, separate from our conscious reasoning
Thin-slicing — the ability to find patterns and draw conclusions from very thin slices of experience
When instincts fail — snap judgments can also be corrupted by bias, stress, or misleading information (e.g., why tall men get hired as CEOs, or how police can make fatal split-second errors)
The paradox of choice — sometimes too much information actually clouds our judgment rather than improving it

Gladwell illustrates these ideas with vivid stories: art experts spotting a fake statue instantly, marriage researchers predicting divorce from a brief conversation, and a tennis coach who could tell when a player would double-fault before it happened.
The takeaway is nuanced — rapid judgment is a powerful tool, but we need to understand when to trust it and when our unconscious biases are leading us astray.

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