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"Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet."

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:21:16 -0500

“Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.”

- Barack Obama

"To meet the great tasks that are before us, we require all our intelligence, and we must be sound..."

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:06:00 -0500

““ To meet the great tasks that are before us, we require all our intelligence, and we must be sound and wholesome in mind. We must proceed in order. The price of anger is failure. ””

- Elwood Hendricks

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:55:22 -0400

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Stand out or fit in. Not all the time, and never at the same time, but it’s always a choice...."

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:57:00 -0400

“Stand out or fit in. Not all the time, and never at the same time, but it’s always a choice. Those that choose to fit in should expect to avoid criticism (and be ignored). Those that stand out should expect neither.”

- Seth Godin

Video

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:38:28 -0500

Insulate yourself...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:57:10 -0500

Insulate yourself...:

from anonymous angry people

Expose yourself to art you don’t yet understand

Precisely measure the results that are important to you

Stay blind to the metrics that don’t matter

Fail often

Ship

Lead, don’t manage so much…

…and more here, from Seth’s Blog.

It made me smile.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:21:29 -0500

It made me smile.

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unamended in..."

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:34:00 -0500

“In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unamended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by persevering on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind, without raising the sails.One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Not he'll, not shut...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:14:09 -0400

My iPhone insists on auto-correcting profanity. Seeing as we’ve not spent a day apart in years, I think it should know me better than that.

What to do next

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:23:04 -0400

What to do next :

“If you’re not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.”

The SkyMall is full of treasures to covet. This trip, I...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The SkyMall is full of treasures to covet. This trip, I discovered that nothing says “escape the power of gravity” quite like a tennis shoe emblazoned with a sperm.

"Social good is not a world owned by saints and martyrs, nor is it defined by the scale of the..."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

““Social good is not a world owned by saints and martyrs, nor is it defined by the scale of the problem you’re hoping to solve. Social good is everybody’s, and it happens each time we do something a little better, a little greener, and a little more considerately than the people before us.””

- From You and Your Meaningless Career in Advertising. More here.

Why you should care about typography

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:45:00 -0400

Why you should care about typography:

My design-loving, type-loving heart loves this. Check it out here.

"Sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference, even when you can’t prove that..."

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:35:00 -0400

“Sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference, even when you can’t prove that it will.”

- Michael Pollan

How can your creative work be as good as your ambitions?

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:25:19 -0400

How can your creative work be as good as your ambitions?

Waiting for the fear to subside

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:07:00 -0400

Waiting for the fear to subside:

“The fear certainly helps you do it better. The fear-less one might sleep better, but sleeping well doesn’t always lead to your best work."

More here.

"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being..."

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:45:00 -0400

“When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect. And then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. We’re flawed, because we want so much more. We’re ruined, because we get these things, and wish for what we had.”

- Don Draper, Mad Men

Irrational vs. unreasonable

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:06:00 -0400

Irrational vs. unreasonable:

“Being right doesn’t always have to be the goal.”

You know what I love about Facebook? My cousins and their status updates. It’s not unlike a...

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

You know what I love about Facebook? My cousins and their status updates. It’s not unlike a visit home – unrelated things being shouted about simultaneously, all in one (loud) place. Yep, all I need now is to eat until I’m sick and FB really is just one big ol’ Greek holiday.

"If everything is under control, you’re probably not going fast enough."

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:08:25 -0400

“If everything is under control, you’re probably not going fast enough.”

- Mario Andretti