December 2009

Want to be smarter? Read and then take action

December 15, 2009

Read this. Then tell your friends about it. Then talk to them about it. Then do what it inspires you to do. What Matters Now

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Tell good stories, regardless of medium

December 15, 2009

Vlogging is in. Blogging is out. Podcasting is in. Blogging is out. Twitter is in. Blogging is out. Bullshit. Story telling is in. Always will be. No matter they medium you choose, they ONLY task you have to accomplish is telling a good story. When you’re talking about getting beat up, mouthing off about Web [...]

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Why bras are more trustworthy than most people

December 13, 2009

When ladies buy a bra, they almost always know what they’re getting. Underwire gives support, push-ups give you cleavage, sports bra minimize the bouncing during athletics. There’s no mystery to it. People aren’t like that. We pledge our support all the time. We label ourselves as helpers or givers, but don’t actually DO anything. And [...]

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Being well known doesn’t mean much, except when it does

December 12, 2009

Farmville is ridiculous. AT&T is bitching about the iPhone‘s massive success. Hollywood is becoming stagnant, as many of what would have been great films are now great TV series. Compare the 90s to the 00s, you’ll see what I mean. But all of them, even Hollywood, still makes money. Lots of money. For years, we’ve [...]

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State of the Economy

December 11, 2009

So the economy is rebounding. We’re buying more stuff. Buying a lot of stuff we really don’t need and we’ll most likely never really use. This astounds me. Is this REALLY what our economy is built on? Spending money at the mall? Buying stuff online? Discretionary income spent on discretionary items or events? If average [...]

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FTC, you don’t scare me

December 11, 2009

We all like getting stuff for free. When I wrote for kontaktmag, we had a policy of never accepting a review product if A) we had to return it or B) we had to pay for it in any way. Why? Once money changes hands, it taints the relationship. Instead of reviewer and reviewee, we [...]

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Practice what you preach

December 9, 2009

For years we’ve been told global warming will kill us all. Good thing we have a team of powerful people working on it, yeah? All those private jets, limos carrying few people…wait, that’s not right. Makes you question what the hell they’re talking about, right? In a time where every speech, action or sometimes thought [...]

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Ideas are great, outcomes are better

December 6, 2009

We all have good ideas. Some of them are great. Others are spectacular. But not one of them mean a damn thing if we don’t produce something from it. I’ve been to plenty of great events this past year, from New York to Seattle and Phoenix to Los Angeles, but the number one thing they [...]

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Mind Campin’

December 4, 2009

It’s called Mind Camp. Take a bunch of smart people. Get them in a room. Give them a problem to solve. Don’t let them out until they’re done. Founded in Seattle, we decided to have our own version. We weren’t quite prepared to spend 24 hours at Gangplank, so Derek Neighbors merged his Lunatic Society [...]

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