“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” – Edmund Burke Go read this story on CNN about a two and a half hour rape of a 15 year old at a San Francisco high school function as nearly two dozen…
J.C. Hutchins hit me and about 19 other folks today up to share his new book, 7th Son: Descent. You’ll get the first 10 chapters in this PDF, and the rest of the book over at Google Books until November 3, so read quickly and go grab a copy. My wife just started to read…
Got a camera? Nearly everyone does these days, from tiny cameras built into mobile devices to prosumer mammoth DSLRs that professional journalists would have traded their children for a generation ago. Like most things in human nature, we very often make woefully little use of the potential of what we have with us. Our cameras…
Ever get the sense that life is moving too fast? Ever get the sense that the best days of your life might be gone before you know it? You’re probably right. After all, we’re so bloody busy these days that we’ll walk right by genius and not even notice (go read the story and come…
Let me tell you a brief story about the day I learned about our superhero powers as human beings. It’s nine o clock on a Saturday, regular crowd shuffles in… In December of 1994, I went to a Billy Joel concert at Nassau Coliseum during one of the final legs of the River of Dreams…
Solving Chunky Spaghetti Sauce with Social Media One of my favorite TED talks by Malcolm Gladwell is a brief lecture on the evolution of chunky spaghetti sauce. Watch the video below: Get it? Chunky spaghetti sauce didn’t exist before Howard Moskowitz’s innovation not for lack of desire, but because customers had no vocabulary to even…
While a bunch of folks were at Blogworld in Vegas this past weekend, I and a few other intrepid seekers got on a plane at Logan Airport in Boston to head to… Dayton, Ohio! Instead of the Strip, we headed to the Dayton Quest Center for a seminar with Stephen K. Hayes called Evocation. It’s…
Just to clarify some confusion, I’m not headed to Vegas or Blogworld this week, though many of my friends are, and I wish them safe travels and good luck if they decide to hit the tables. I’m instead headed to Dayton, Ohio later this week for a transformative conference/seminar called Evocation, hosted by my teacher’s…
There’s a little too much no out there. No, you can’t. No, you don’t have that. No, that’s not affordable. No, you’re not good enough. No, you don’t know how to do that. No, you can’t reach those customers. The problem with no is in the finality of its tone. No cuts off possibility, especially…
