Posts in Love,Philosophy,Politics,Religion
Villains (View Comments)
When you’re in elementary school, you start a club. A spy club, or a ninja club, or a boys club or a treehouse club. And in doing so you create your own little world, something you identify with. You and your select group of friends who are in your club suddenly have something that other [...]
Living the mission (View Comments)
A trip to Google uncovers the ‘secret ingredient’ to their success – unbridled passion for what they do.
Bill and Warren understand (View Comments)
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are combining their resources in an effort to change the world. It’s easy to say “So what! If I had 41 billion, I’d give away 35 billion too.” Thing is, most of us will never have that much scratch. But many of us, in our lifetimes, will have the opportunity [...]
Please go see this movie (View Comments)
This is not a Republican or Democrat or Chinese or American or Christian or Muslim or Jewish or Agnostic issue. Try to see this movie and not be absolutely convinced that you have a moral imperative to do something about it, to make a difference in some way in your own life. It really is [...]
Neophilia and its casualties (View Comments)
Seth points out an article today in Media Life Magazine about neophilia, an overwhelming, compulsive love of all things new. Seth rightly points out that this phenomena can easily be found on our coasts and in the tech community, but one would be hard-pressed to find evidence of such an afflicition in, say, Lena, Illionois. [...]
Father’s Day and Nobility (View Comments)
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes – 5 times the average. 85% of all children who show behavior disorders are from fatherless homes – 20 times the average. 80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes – 14 times the average. 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes [...]
The real paradigm shift (View Comments)
There’s a lot to love about the nature of the web community these days. People working on cool projects, loving what they do, excited to get up each day, truly believing that they have the creativity and passion to change the world in some small way. It’s the complete antithesis of so many corporate environments. [...]
Simplicity (View Comments)
Simplicity is a difficult thing to come by. We live fragmented, disjointed lives, always running from something, to something. We’re trying to get more and more done with less and less time. It’s an impossible race that leaves us tired, empty, drained. We as a society love to prize the man or woman who can [...]
