UPDATED: This post has been significantly updated and expanded over on the SHIFT blog. Go read it there. As you likely know, Twitter recently filed for its initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities Exchange Commission, a major step in the process of becoming a publicly traded company. For many of its investors, this is…
A master practitioner is someone who can practice and demonstrate their abilities at the highest levels, from martial artists who can handle multiple armed attackers to Olympians who can defy world records and our imaginations at their feats of strength and speed. We admire these master practitioners for their skills that transcend technical competence to…
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I’ve had the opportunity to do an awful lot of surveying recently as part of my work at SHIFT. The surveying I’ve been doing has been initiated by me on behalf of clients and the data is used to inform various marketing campaigns. What I’ve found while doing this work is that because the research…
Everyone’s had those periods where they take a break from a fitness routine or let a hobby fall by the wayside. As a result, the skills and capabilities that you had when you were regularly practicing begin to fade. For fitness folks, cardiovascular endurance and maximum lung capacity can begin to diminish in as little…
I’m not real fond of “selfies” – photos you repeatedly take of yourself and share. I know what I look like, and I’ve no need to share that. But I’m rather fond of what I’ve taken to calling “Shelfies” – snapshots in time of what you’re reading (or soon to be reading). As we get…
It’s said that the students of Aikido founder and grandmaster Morihei Ueshiba once asked him, “Sensei, how is it that you are never out of balance?“, to which Ueshiba-sensei replied, “I am constantly out of balance. You never see it because I am constantly correcting it.” This is an incredibly powerful lesson for life, for…
