I never look at Fortune Magazine….but then, I did over lunch, and it looks as if I’ve been missing Stanley Bing. And he is very funny.

Look. Throughout the course of human history, life on earth has been a struggle, a disappointment to most, a tragedy to some, a triumph to a few. But for most of us, the small things in life make it worthwhile, not the megatrends that make us nuts and take place around us. People managed to live through the plague years in Europe 500 years ago. Aren’t things better than that now? We have IPods.