I often have occasion to remark that we don’t know what goes on behind other people’s closed doors. Some people are open about their inner life, venting to friends or […]
Employees or Independent Contractors?
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 5 As you return to full speed after New Year’s, you may need to add to your To Do list a careful review […]
Questions for a New Decade
I do my best learning by deciding how to explain some weird situation to other people. Each fact feels like a piece of a big puzzle that I not only […]
Our Bright Future
As we push towards the end-of-year holidays, there is a tendency to look back in an effort to make sense of the year. I suppose I’ll do some of that […]
Thoughts for a New Year
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. I am glad to welcome the year 5780. As a society, the year 5779 was, in my opinion, less than our best […]
A Series of Unfortunate Events
I am frustrated and angry. The most recent spasm of gun violence at a garlic festival in rural Gilroy, California, a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and an entertainment district […]
Threat Inflation
Last week, a friend sent me a rather apocalyptic article entitled, “1 in 5 Americans Avoid Concerts, Sporting Events Due to Physical & Cybersecurity Concerns.” The article warns that a […]
Sports, Work, and Other Dangerous Activities
It’s been quite a week in the United States. Evidently, it remains dangerous to attend baseball games with your children, or to go to work at all. I find these […]
Foreseeably “Unreasonable”
Faithful readers of Adelman on Venues know that I believe one simple question is the first building block of risk management: What could go wrong? When I talk with friends […]
The Straight and Narrow Path
A happy consequence of developing an area of expertise and then sticking with it is that after a while, no one remembers when you didn’t know what you were doing. […]