tdhurst

(you can call me tyler)
“It's time to stop hiding behind brands, corporate policies or the way things used to be. Evolve. Get better. Let's learn from each other. It's called the Collaboration Revolution. Welcome to the Relationship Age.” - Tyler Hurst

Phoenix is a (bad) cell phone company

Phoenix is dead to me. It's been years, nay decades, since metro Phoenix started its transformation into a real city. Dip in economy after dip in economy has prompted business leaders to fashion new marketing plans in order to attract new customers. Cheap land? Done. Lots of roads ...

You’re Not

You're not what you could be. You're not what you should be. You're timid. You're insecure. You're going to figure it out. You're going to give gifts to others. You are the change you want to see in everyone. You are not afraid. Ha, just kidding. Go laugh at someone. It's fun. Arkayne = window.Arkayne || {}; Arkayne.baseurl = 'http://www.arkayne.com'; Arkayne.go ...

The Little Things

It's always the little things. Small tasks left undone, chinks in our armor or additives we in what we eat. They add up. Looked at a food label lately? The prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup and its derivatives slowly add up. There's nothing nutritional about it, but it makes processed ...

Show your mistakes

We all want to look good. We want to bring our best work, display our best talents and show our best side. And that's great. It's good that we want those around us to see us at our best. People can learn and be inspired. But we're selling everyone short. People can learn ...

Accept, Change, Ignore

No matter what happens, we are always faced with the same three choices. We can accept, we can change or we can ignore. Accept is an easy one and often chosen, but it seldom does much good. If someone calls you an asshole, you can either take it or fight it. ...

All you need is love

It doesn't have to be perfect, it's doesn't have to be pricey and it doesn't have to be grand. It just has to come from the heart. Valentine's Day isn't a day for lovers, it's a day for love. It's a day for loving what you do, loving who you're with ...

Inspiring others

It's not every day you can inspire those who inspire you. Ty, This is a very remarkable book. It is slow reading but well worth it. It sure makes you think a lot about the past and the future for each of us. love dad I can see why you were so ...

Being your best

We only run our fastest when we quit worrying about how to stop. We do our best when we quit worrying about how not to. We'll never do our best if we keep ourselves under control, if we never compete against those greater than us, or we're never in over our head. Doing ...

The “InsertNameHere” Problem

Every company, group or team has one. It's usually a person, but sometimes a process, but the issue is the same. They cause problems. Not normal problems, like breaking machinery or poor work, but problems like challenging authority, refusal to follow arcane rules and a general unwillingness to participate in inefficient ...

As the Super Bowl goes, so does America

It used to be better. Everything did. What changed? Did we grow up? Did Oklahoma City bombings, 9/11, Katrina and the rise of Puritan values do it? Can the fact we're allowed to see graphic violence on prime-time TV, but not nudity, desensitize the nation to the point we don't ...

March 10th 2010
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What can 100 people do with their love of art?

Art is a gift. It changes the giver AND the recipient. But art, like a a true straight line, doesn't actually EXIST. All we can see is the physical representation of the artist's true vision of the world. And for this, we should all be grateful. I've purchased ONE piece of art ...
March 9th 2010
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What revolution?

So you say you want a revolution...yet you have no idea what the word means. According to Scott Dadich, the creative director of Wired, "there's a revolution in the way ppl consume journalism." WHAT? Are readers demanding that journalism change? Do you remember asking? The way we consume media is EVOLVING and ...
March 8th 2010
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Make me proud

My dad is a 61-year-old safety trainer and salesman. He's owned his own business, helped raise three kids and has been in the same house since 1981. He's the hardest-working person I know, is never late and hasn't ever given up in the 30 years I've been alive. This past August, ...
March 7th 2010
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Going bare

We wear expensive shoes because we're told they protect our feet. We wear certain styles of clothing because we're told we'll be accepted if we do. We act a certain way in order to fit in. All of these act as barriers to what's really there. Similar to force-feedback on any ...
March 6th 2010
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Context

This is the first picture I'd ever seen of Sunny Thaper. I assumed he tweeted from there and, having never been to Gangplank at the time, had no one to ask. Since this was the only image I had associated with him, I thought of it every time I saw a ...

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