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"Your Business Has A Moral Center" On Forbes
“It’s easy to vilify business. Sadly, we’re usually justified in these feelings, too. For many reasons, over the ...”
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Thoughts On Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, etc.
“A couple of weeks ago, it seemed like everywhere I looked online I saw an ...”
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The Magic Of Strengths-Based Coaching
“I had the pleasure of presenting a virtual class entitled "The Magic of Strengths-Based Coaching" ...”
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A New Addition
“Over the years, I've been publishing article-like content here, which has been great fun and ...”
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4 Unconventional Ways To Market Your Book On Aleweb
“Recently, Tara Alemany, a friend of mine from the LeadChange Group, asked me to write a ...”
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Life And Music By Alan Watts (With Transcript)
“ Transcript: In music, one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If ...”
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The Selfishness Of Helping 'The World'
“We often think the world needs a certain "something" from us. We go out of ...”
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Google Being Evil & Why Net Neutrality Matters
“We've been hearing a lot about Google "going evil" over the last week or so. ...”
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Being Right Or Being Open
“Let's get this out there first: I love being right. I think this is generally ...”
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Death by Info v. Death by Ignorance (& Gummi Bears)
“In the longstanding tradition of dividing the world into two types of people, I present ...”
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We Are What We Choose (2010 Princeton Baccalaureate Remarks by Jeff Bezos)
“As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. ...”
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The Future Of Publishing
“For all of us The future is a chapter unwritten And much can be said Much has been ...”
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7 Dirty Little Secrets of Job Hunting (How to Find a Job, Change Careers, etc.)
“Trying to make any kind of career shift can be incredibly frustrating, and through my ...”
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Org Fit Has Nothing To Do With Your Org
“Last week I had coffee with a new friend who told me a bit of ...”
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Saving The World, One Household Product At A Time
“American author and poet Alice Walker has a quote I love which says, "The most ...”
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Age Has Nothing To Do With How Old You Are
“Age really doesn’t have much to do with age. A person’s true age is more about ...”
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27
Leadership Is Not For You
“ KEY POINTS FROM THE VIDEO "The Legacy Crisis" Leadership is always about more than what's happening now; ...”
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From The Perspective Of A Volcano
“A few days ago, the headline of the Huffington Post read "SMOKE MONSTER," bolstered by ...”
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Kill The Jargon
“Jargon is everywhere. Just like countries, every industry has its own language with terminology, slang, ...”
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Questions Are The New Answers
“Everyone loves answers. Believe me, I love that feeling of brilliant clarity I get when ...”
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Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You
“Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer (1884 - 1962), once said: "Do one thing every day ...”
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End Of An Era
“One of my favorite futurist music writers, Bob Lefsetz, wrote an article with the same ...”
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Choices Will Terminate You
“This morning, one of my regular check-in sites, Mashable.com, posted a link for a movie ...”
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My Books
“I had a great conversation the other day with David Kinnaman, the President of The ...”
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Broke*: A Film About Music
“For more than a year, two of my best friends, Will Gray and Jon Kofahl, ...”
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12+1 Songs You Need On Your iPod (Holiday Edition)
“Even though it never snows where I live, I grew up in a place where ...”
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Pay What You Want For My Last Album
“One of my favorite things to do is to create music. In fact, before I ...”
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American Idol & My Nonexistent NBA Career
“I'm sure our collective parents all collectively meant well when they collectively told us that ...”
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Time To Buy Some Mazda Stock
“Being a former Mazda driver and regular blogger, I was invited by Mazda to attend ...”
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12 Songs You Need On Your iPod, Part III (Goosebumps Edition)
“Welcome to Part III of 12 Songs You Need On Your iPod. This list is something ...”
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10,000 Hours Is Missing The Point
“Reprinted from Mike Morrison's fantastic email newsletter (November 4, 2009); you can subscribe here. In this ...”
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People: Your LEAST Important Asset
“Once upon a time, in the thick of the American industrial revolution, a highly respected ...”
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14
Capitalism: A Love Story?
“ I saw Michael Moore's latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, on opening day. This was ...”
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Where The Hell Is Matt?
“...and, more importantly, how have I not seen this before!? Travel is wondrous. Dancing is a ...”
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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
“Dr. Lee, the professor for my MBA International Management class, said something last month in ...”
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New Blog Design
“Welcome to the new blog design! The Wordpress theme is called Press and was designed ...”
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The Epic Fail of California (and Why It Matters)
“Last night (October 3, 2009) the headline of The Huffington Post, in characteristic bold red letters, ...”
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30
New Social Media Facts!
“ Here's a brand new social media facts video from the kind folks at XPLANE and ...”
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Invisible Speakers from Emo Labs
“This isn't a technology blog by any means, but these invisible speakers have the potential ...”
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You Cannot Legislate The Poor Into Freedom
“QUOTE OF THE DAY You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out ...”
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Looking At The Wrong Side Of An Airplane
“The title and opening sentence for this MSN article (http://tr.im/inflightwifi) says: In the Air, Wi-Fi Gets ...”
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Making Sense Of Health Care
“For the last few months the Obama administration has been making a pretty big deal ...”
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The Death Of Books?
“The Social Media Revolution video I posted yesterday got some good dialogue going on my ...”
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Is Social Media A Fad?
“ There's so much great stuff in this video that I couldn't not post it. (And ...”
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Umair Haque On Constructive Capitalism
“Umair Haque is the Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic ...”
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12 Songs You Need On Your iPod, Part II
“My first post of "12 Songs You Need On Your iPod" was surprisingly popular, so ...”
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Genius & The Weight Of Creativity
“I just watched an incredible and insightful video on the oft-impossible weight of creativity from ...”
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3 Great Insights For Managing Gen Y
“I came across this interview today, and thought it had some really great things to ...”
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12 Songs You Need On Your iPod
“One of my obsessions is new music. It's like a drug... and thankfully much cheaper. ...”
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The Grass Ain't Greener
“In 2004, I worked as a night time producer and deejay at Mix 100.3 FM ...”
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Must-See: The Story Of Stuff
“I'll keep this brief, as I'd love for you to consider taking the next 21 ...”
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Incorporate Yourself
“I'm working on writing another book. It started as an idea for a project I ...”
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God Is Not Gonna Paint Your Van
“Driving home from the office today I got stuck behind one of those huge old ...”
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Unemployment, Greed, & Hope
“(I wrote this on January 9, 2009. Figured it was time to post it.) On msnbc.com ...”
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Outliers
“I finished reading Malcom Gladwell's latest book, Outliers, a few nights ago. I know what ...”
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Productivity Stats
“I came across an fascinating list of stats provided by Dr. Donald E. Wetmore, the ...”
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The Courage Of Detroit
“On Friday my lovely Mitten-native wife brought home a black and white copy of an ...”
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Must-See: Slumdog Millionaire
“Went to see Slumdog Millionaire in Burbank last night. You know, "buzz" is a funny thing. ...”
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Lovin's For Fools
“I knew I had to post this when I saw that only 3,241 people had ...”
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Playing For Change: Peace Through Music
“I don't suppose there are too many things better to post on Christmas Eve than ...”
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Paradoxical Art
“It seems to me that artists exist in some kind of existential purgatory. Anyone who considers ...”
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
“This is bloody genius. Enjoy!! //”
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Ben Stein On The Military
“While I Swim at Home, Our Combatants Fight On by Ben Stein (from NewsMax Magazine June ...”
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Lite-Brites, Sisyphus, & Expecting The Best
“When in a position of leadership, how much does a leader's lack of faith in ...”
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Why 'Unrealistic' Goals Are Easier To Achieve
“By Tim Ferriss (excerpt from The 4-Hour Work Week) I had to bribe them. What other ...”
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The Millennial Melee
“An increasing topic of interest to me (and, apparently, the rest of the world) is ...”
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A New Way To Get Music?
“The article I'm going to talk about is over a month old, but I just ...”
Mar
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LOST: Mystery Solved?
“My good friend Blanchard posted a link to an absolutely fascinating website on his blog ...”
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John Mayer Has A TV Show
“I suppose it would actually be more correct to say that John Mayer HAD a ...”
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What’s 3 Trillion?
“Written out, a trillion is a one followed by 12 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000. That's a ...”
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The Rich Young Me
“I had coffee last week with my friend Greg, and, as always, we had some ...”
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Did God Create Evil?
“The university professor challenged his students with this question: "Did God create everything that exists?" A ...”
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A Dramatic Chipmunk To Start 2008
“Despite the fact that this was hugely popular in 2007 (I have no idea why ...”
2007
Dec
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Free Download Of "Mary," My Christmas Song
“UPDATE NOVEMBER 2014 — BRAND NEW VERSION! Available on Spotify HERE, iTunes HERE // In the spirt of ...”
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The Shopocalypse Is Upon Us!
“Morgan Spurlock, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite people, recently released a new ...”
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Strategist, Catalyst, Philosopher
“(DISCLAIMER: There's a whole lot of StrengthsFinder lingo in this post; if you're finding yourself ...”
Nov
07
Ron Paul @ Google
“Listening to Ron Paul is kind of like reading a history textbook, which I realize ...”
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Strengths Insight: Communication
“I realized this morning on my short drive to the office that communication is actually ...”
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Never Forget (9/11/07)
“May we never forget that violence always kills -- not only the person who is ...”
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The Educated & Scholarly
“A few more words of wisdom from our friend, the "other" J.D.: "Many, many men have ...”
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Education: Time For Something New
“On my vacation, my beautiful family-in-law and I visited the Mackinac Island area of Michigan ...”
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Holden Caulfield On Jesus, Etc.
“Thus spake Holden Caulfield: "I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but ...”
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Full Of Myself
“Over the past six weeks, I have being doing the Body For Life program, in ...”
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Jesus Drives An LAX Airport Shuttle
“I guess you could say that I've been practicing "The Secret" for the last couple ...”
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Music You Need On Your iPod
“A Fine Frenzy, "Ashes and Wine" Jeremy Lister, "Ready To Fall" Iron & Wine, "Boy With A ...”
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Spider-man 3 Part 2
“So, if you are a regular reader, you probably already know that I write freelance ...”
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War, PTS, & Responsibility
“A couple nights ago, some of my good friends and coworkers attended a post traumatic ...”
Apr
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All This Gravity
“When you live in the desert, you try to get out whenever you can. "Yesterday Morning" ...”
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Luminaries & Black Holes
“The most brilliant minds on the planet will tell you that the universe is expanding. ...”
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“What Would Jesus Do?” From GQ
“A couple years back, a guy named Walter Kirn, the literary editor for GQ Magazine ...”
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California: The Edge Of Nothing (Except Maybe Sanity)
“I won't lie: part of me moved to Los Angeles because I have an illness: ...”
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A Future Not Our Own
“It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not ...”
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Los Angeles, City Of Broken Angels
“There are many things I love about LA. But some days, I fear for us. ...”
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This Is How It Works
“"This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until ...”
2006
Dec
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Why God Is A Quarter Note (Or Eighth Note If You Prefer)
“I think, perhaps, that Life is what happens when we, physical, human representations come into ...”
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“Celebrate, Remember A Year In The Life Of Friends"
“*ESPECIALLY FOR MUSICAL THEATER / POP CULTURE JUNKIES* I just watched "Rent" the other night on ...”
Jul
03
All God Needs Is Gravity To Hold Me Down
“Why does travel sound so good? Behold Alison Krauss & Union Station, in "Gravity": And the people ...”
Feb
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the last day of school
“Maybe it was because it feels like spring (about 60 degrees and sunny here in ...”
Jan
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Don't Forget Your Green Apron
“Every once in a great while I have these random moments of clarity; like suddenly ...”
2005
Dec
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The Lovely Bones
“I wrote this on December 10th, 2005, at 3:33pm in Vail, Colorado, right after finishing ...”
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To Believe In God
“"To believe in God is to believe in the salvation of the world." "The paradox of ...”
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Hope
“It amazes me that someone can run a thread of purpose through our miniscule, pain-filled ...”
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Reality & TV
“Sometimes I hear people criticize a movie or a TV show for not being realistic. ...”
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My Friend, Thomas Edison
“Perhaps the most evil thing about humanity isn't our propensity for malevolence but our ability ...”
Jun
30
Storms
“Today in Michigan it rained; The sky turned a blue the shade Of a deep, angry ocean And ...”
Apr
01
still fighting it
“ I just watched the video for Ben Folds' song Still Fighting It -- probably my ...”
Mar
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My Life, A Movie
“(This post was mostly taken from a rare journal entry of mine back in August ...”
Jan
26
Adventures In The Car Pool Lane
“Ah, the car pool. Now, I understand that "pool" has different meanings, but for me it ...”
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College Students
“I almost hit a college student with my car today. I didn't, though, so don't worry ...”
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Just A Bit Of Silliness, Really
“I'm not sure what happened to me. You should know, before I begin, that I'm one ...”
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Soul
“So, I just finished writing (literally, just now) a new song called Soul, and, oh, ...”
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The Beginning
“Welcome to my first attempt at "the blog!" For the longest time I had no idea ...”