Dennis Freire

Dear St. Augustine

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:37:00 +0000

Correction to previous post - Offline Writing. My offline, old-fashioned writing is now done on the iMac that Matthew gave me. A gift, son to dad. [iMac cool tight simple elegant. iMatt cool tight...

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Off-line Writing

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:10:00 +0000

In answer to many questions about my not posting anything for almost one year: First, I've been focusing on good old fashioned writing in MS Word documents saved to the hard drive and backed up on...

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The Pop in Pop Culture

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:17:00 +0000

Oprah Winfrey recently hosted the 60th Primetime Emmy's show. Ze Frank excerpted her introduction and asked for responses. Here's the edited version of my response: TV news: producers decide what...

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Home Land Acquisitions, LLC

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:10:00 +0000

Help Wanted:: Start Immediately Personal Assistant to the Office of the Exchequer * Duties include writing checks to free market companies sending their fat-cat chief officers and profligate...

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E Pluribus Unum for Who, um?

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:14:00 +0000

I don't have anything to add, really, to the public discourse on the new movie "Saving Private Companies" coming real soon to a theater near you. Produced by the Chickens Who Came Home to Roost and...

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Grandpa Volunteers, Grandma Sacrifices

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:22:00 +0000

Arthur Dennis Farren and Stella Mary Payne Farren's young family as the War began. Santa Barbara County, California

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My Mother's Father at War

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:45:00 +0000

Arthur Dennis Farren, Some South Pacific Island, World War II

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Memes as Headlines

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:13:00 +0000

I was reading the Jan. 25, 2008, edition of Economist.com. The headline for an article reporting Mexico's war on illegal drugs, is "No country for old men." Clever. Yet another case of editors...

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Social Flutterby, New Media Curmudgeon and theThird

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Here is a summary of your responses to my call yesterday for opinions about Facebook (polling sample is a little over 50; while important to me and to those who've opined, these results are...

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How Do You Spell Recovery?

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:01:00 +0000

HGH. Malcolm Galdwell poses some questions about pro sports and banned substances.... questions I've been thinking and talking about. See Malcolm's post "War On Drugs, Con't" and see the three...

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Sunday Night's Soup Night

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:44:00 +0000

The best day of the week is Sunday. The best part of Sunday is being together as a family. And our favorite meal on Sunday night is soup. The girls like soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. I like...

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Distribution of Wealth

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:27:00 +0000

I've been surprised by the responses to my post about the distance that separates the compensation of publicly-traded companies' CEOs from the compensation of those CEOs' fellow employees. Some have...

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How to Make Good Bread

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:35:00 +0000

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Insurance Benefits

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:14:00 +0000

Some of your responses (to my post about employee compensation) have reminded me of an ethical dilemma faced by boards of directors and executives, at least by those with consciences perhaps as...

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Employee Compensation

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle in 1977 by making a capital investment and contributing his intellectual property, which was the relational database he created. His 2004 salary of $40.6MM, I assume,...

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Book Recommendation

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Seth Godin's "Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?" This book should be read by the CEO on down the line. An understanding of Seth's thesis will help companies: avoid out-of-sync and...

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A Beautiful Tipping Point

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:20:00 +0000

A few of my daughters and I were visiting a new neighbor. They have three young children (7, 5, 3). The middle child, a girl, is reserved. She's also blind. Let's say her name is "Ashley." My...

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Debt

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:19:00 +0000

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night...

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Seeing It Soon Enough

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:57:00 +0000

I received a request from a friend to help analyze a difficult situation. The fountain head of the problem is a series of decisions made three years ago, in 1995. From that fountain head flows a...

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Vaulting Ceilings and Education

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:23:00 +0000

The responses to my posts The Third Teacher and Good Design, Wrong Agenda helps me see there are a lot of folks who question the established learning environments for children. I wonder about...

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"The Cheapest Way To Build An Empire"

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:28:00 +0000

This is stream of consciousness, maybe ill formed, but I wanted to chunk it out to look at it later. An oft-touted wealth-creation strategy: Expectation of being the target of a purchase or merger;...

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Helping Others Find An Audience

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:50:00 +0000

Of course, by "an audience" I refer to people who are engaged and interested in what someone is creating or saying or selling. I met today with the owner of an up and coming commercial web site...

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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:09:00 +0000

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have a similar thorn in their sides. For Mr. Obama, adversaries and the media -- even those who really ought to be his philosophical and political supporters -- have...

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Good Design, Wrong Agenda

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:09:00 +0000

Continuing the discussion on "The Third School," Dr. P shared some thoughts about the places children learn. "My sister is an architect, and we have had an ongoing discussion for the last six or...

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"The Third Teacher"

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis Freire) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:00 +0000

Whenever I have taught or presented, I have wanted to understand my environment and control it, where possible, or at least adjust it to make it more conducive to learning and communication. I'm not...

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