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Tag Archives: observations
Be true to your principles, or solve the problem?
I really enjoy reading Malcolm Gladwell‘s work. His approach to looking at problems is fresh and interesting, and he’s able to draw correlations that are not only unusual, but incredibly insightful. I find I’m often struck by the obvious relationship … Continue reading
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7 Lessons from the 4th of July
A couple of days early, admittedly, but well worth the read. In this brief article, Edward Klink, senior editor of Horsesmouth, a company dedicated to helping financial advisors be more successful, looks at seven lessons to be learned from The … Continue reading
How to fly a kite
From Jack’s 1st Grade creative writing notebook: How to fly a kite: You get a kite. You hold on to the kite and handle and run. Let go of the kite but not the handle. Then let it fly!!!! but … Continue reading
Grandma and the Elves
Send your own ElfYourself eCards
60 Minutes makes you impotent
I haven’t watched 60 Minutes regularly since I lived at home with my parents, but I do listen to the podcast versions while doing other things, like cleaning the gutters, blowing leaves around with my kick-ass leaf blower, or riding … Continue reading
50 Best Inventions of 2008
This is one of those “un-looked-for” joys: Time Magazines’ annual article about the most impressive, game-changing inventions of the year. There are some very cool things on the list this year: The Tesla Roadster – an all-electric rocket that goes … Continue reading
Cartoon of the Month
In the “worth a thousand words” category, this perfectly sums up the primary undercurrent of the political campaign: Turns out that Tina Fey is a bigger star than either Obama or Palin.
Drop and give me 100 pushups!
Or, as Chief Petty Office Paet used to say in boot camp, “Pushup position, hut!” (Although the exclamation mark may be misplaced, he was a smallish Filipino guy who never raised his voice.) So the days of actually doing 100 … Continue reading
What's going on at Rare Bird?
Quite a lot, actually. We’ve added a few great people to the staff, brought on a few new clients, and are working diligently to complete and launch a very cool, completely new e-commerce platform with direct fulfillment integration for a … Continue reading
Lessons From Art
In Remembrance of my father-in-law, Arthur F. Field IIIIn his book, Bread for the Journey, Henri Knouen described death like this: “Dying is a gradual diminishing and final vanishing over the horizon of life. When we watch a sailboat moving … Continue reading