Awaken YOUR Superhero Powers : Introduction
We live in an age starved for heroes. The resurgence of hero movies, hero TV shows, hero stories, and the willingness by the media to label anyone with an ounce of initiative a hero shows how badly we need to find heroes in our society.
But… what if you could have [...]

The buzz this weekend was clearly about Q - the first TRUE viral marketing product I’ve seen in new media. It’s viral just like a real virus - it spreads to everyone you’ve come in contact with, and the power of its infection is multiplied by the level of contact you have with others. We’ll [...]

Another fantastic seminar with master teacher Stephen K. Hayes has come to an end, and this one is even harder to put into words. Meditations, martial arts, and mind science all blended together for an eye-opening weekend. A few takeaways that I can put into words come to mind…
Second Life. Was there Second Life at [...]

Chris Brogan and I have been watching and participating in the dynamo that is PodCamp NYC, and he recently pondered how to keep a sense of community in a large crowd? On ko chi shin - let’s look outside conferences. Remember the Dunbar number? It’s a sociology theory that says the maximum group size of [...]

Justin Kownacki had a moving and powerful post on his blog, Cafe Witness, about where he is in life right now. Among other things, he highlights questions about the power of positive thinking, negativity, and how things like debt can influence your life, potentially putting you even farther behind than you currently are.
A couple of [...]

C.C. Chapman talks on his blog about Twittering beyond the box - uses of Twitter beyond your personal community, and suggests applications like politics, storytelling, celebrities, erotica, news, and sports, and wants to know our thoughts on what else Twitter can be used for.
What is Twitter? Ultimately, Twitter is length limited asynchronous multicast IM. Some [...]

One of the themes of this year - and the calligraphy in the header of this blog - is a topic my martial arts teacher, Sensei Mark Davis, uses in his email signature. “On ko chi shin” is a four character Japanese idiom which can be translated in a bunch of ways. “Study the old [...]