To get something new, different, or better — one must change. To stay the same and be wowed by everything changing around us, that is not wise. To stay the same and to be unwise, that alienates. To alienate, that yields corresponding results. How are you going to make change happen and learn to enjoy [...]
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die I’m reading Made to Stick. The timing is excellent….
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This is a cross-post from the J Street Technology – Blog. Change and Its Wonderful Blessings This one’s got a bit of nostalgia in it, but it all comes together in the end… In 2008, I wrote a brief blog post about a change in personal technology that I had noticed over the previous 10 [...]
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TEDxNextGenerationAsheville – Birke Baehr – “What’s Wrong With Our Food System” HT: my friend Carrie who shared it on Facebook
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As I work with clients and also in my own life, I am often challenged to come up with solutions to various issues. I think we need to look at things from different perspectives. Solutions do not need to be overly complex and they don’t have to be expensive. This TED talk challenges a few [...]
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Virgin America had a bad flight. It turned out not to be such a disaster because they (sort of) dealt with it early. United, on the other hand, well they shat on their own faces by being dorks about breaking a guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo I kinda like the song. I’d like it even more if it [...]
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This past month I moved across the country, back to the Seattle, Washington area. I love it here! And, I’m glad to be back. This trip back was done with everything I own able to fit into my truck with the top carrier. It was not really that tight of a fit. That’s mostly because I [...]
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Cell Phone Encryption Code Is Divulged “A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, saying it was his attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of global wireless systems.” …hmmm… More perspective is in the full article. [...]
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There are many reasons. One of the Twitter co-founders writes about one good one. They listened.
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I had to pause this video about half way through because I could not stop crying. Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery Are we truly free?
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