OK, technically one’s a David and one’s a Dave (and I respect that given that I’m an “Edward,” and while a hard-core group of college roommates and people who’ve known me since the Eisenhower administration call me “Eddie” (which I love), I’m not so kee...

Two online marketing seminars (one ridiculously inept and the other amazingly helpful and generous). One client lesson. Lunch at the Art Institute with Susan and Belle. Two great conversations with Andrea Lake. Revamped the mailing list with a major import of contacts, increasing it by 30%. Redesigned my n...

I read the rest of SAVE THE CAT last night over two glasses of Malbec at Don Pistos and I totally loved it.  (This was after watching the finale of “It’s A Brad, Brad World” with Susan and Belle which was somehow intensely moving and silly all at once –– although I had tremendous Déjà vu ...

The Universe can sometimes be too funny. Yesterday was a very intense workday, capped by a delightful dinner at Plant with Susan and Val and Belle. Perhaps the funniest moment of the day, however, was this Cosmic Wink. I got a copy of AS A MAN THINKETH by James Allen, written in 1903, from the Library beca...

It seems that the meanest person in the world is editing my screenplay. And for better or worse, that person is me. We’re at 260 pages (ha — my typo was “pounds”;  I really am on a juice-cleanse mindset) and we want to be at 120 by Monday, so we’re talking about reducing ...

After a lovely day –– coffee at Acre, planning meeting, lunch at the super-zen, super-gorgeous, Japanese Tea Garden, and teaching a private client  ––Adrian and I had an early dinner at Don Pistos. It’s true that on my very first visit, I went with Susan at 7pm, but that was before I registered with ...

Monday morning I reconstructed my to do list — there were an overwhelming number of activities on it — and my usual system of sorting things (based on SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE) just wasn’t helping. Creating a David Neagle inspired list of “Miracle Generating” ac...

No Oscars for us on Sunday night. Instead, Adrian and Belle and I went to the rescheduled Simone Dinnerstein concert at the Montalvo Arts Center, an easy hour drive from San Francisco into bucolic countryside. It’s your basic Italianate villa on 175 acres that a Senator built in the 20s and left to t...

So yesterday I received about 200 messages congratulating me for the appearance of my dropback painting in the New York Times.  It was fantastic and a little overwhelming. We’re talking about my speed dials & people I haven’t spoken to in 20 years;  people I’ve just met & folks I&...