Thanks again the the organizers of Phoenix Design Week for choosing my topic and much love to Luis Salazar, Carol Johnson, Bill Wyman and Peter Sciacca for appearing on the panel. Posted via email from Tyler says...
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Running in Vibrams is freeing until you realize that you're running BAREFOOT ON CONCRETE.Seriously, who invented these things? Why am I wearing them? They are the most comfortable shoes that cause me the most pain ever.But I can't stop wearing them. Is this what heroin is like? ...
It all started with a letter.
Phoenix Design Week, the largest independent design fair the Valley has ever seen, was conceived, planned and executed solely by the collaboration of a large group of volunteers. PhxDW was created to showcase what makes our home a player on design’s world stage.
Spearheaded ...
To learn from your mistakes, you must first learn what your mistakes are.
I once arranged for my friend at Abercombie & Fitch to let me buy one item of clothing and walk out with many bags as long as I split them with him, but I never lied to anyone.
I've ...
Great storytellers like have always been popular. Thinks Shakespeare. Cronkite. Hanks. As listeners, want to immerse themselves in their world and live through them. It requires trust, it requires imagination and it requires a suspension of disbelief. But it's not real. There's no interaction. We're being talked at, not ...
I'm two years older than my brother and almost three inches shorter. He bought his first car before I did, got married before I did and learned to be an adult waaaaay before I did (or will, I suppose). We share a love of playing wiffleball and catch, and ...
Some think it's the trying that's important. Others believe that stepping up to the plate is a success in itself. Not me. It doesn't count unless you get a hit. Unless you make an impression. Unless you inspire. Wanting wasn't enough this morning. Questioning wasn't enough this ...
Know what you're talking about.
If nothing else, know what you're talking about.
Short of that, just do what I do here and talk nearly non-stop for an hour and a half. Also, put your name on your shirt.
Here's the full version. Highlights to come, if I find any.
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For those just jumping in, read part one first.
Okay, I was drunk. Not falling over drunk, but I was having a good time. The party was two hours old, the fifth I had brought had been consumed and now I was staggering around on my hurt right leg, trying to ...
When I was downsized last December, I knew exactly where to look. I knew who to talk to, I knew who to solicit advice from and I knew what I wanted to do. And it still took two months and a lot of luck to find a gig. ...