Purposeful time

What if each moment you lived was imbued with a purpose that had such clarity, such consistency and such intensity that it fed an inner sense of well-being and self-esteem?

I know that my personal frame of reference would be to doubt the validity of this meaning, as if the only acceptable posture…

Identity

With the onslaught of stimulus baked into modern life, the constant persuasion of the public dialogue and the desire of each one of us to assess others for their fitness in our tribe, we experience constant pressure on our identity. 

The work of becoming an adult in modern America is to integrate identity into…

Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy: Aaron Lacrate, Baltimore Pt. 1

The dB’s, long ago

Standing on the left side of the Ritz, away from the stage, loosely attached to everything around me, a little drunk, wandering in my mind. The wall vibrates, the heavy bass thump running up my spine, giving me the sensation of moving inches with every down beat. But I’m stable, I’m rooted. I’m…

Drew Wheeler Is Looking For A Job

Great use of video & graphics to show information

This is really neat. Simple, clear, and something that was a tightly defined information experience before the videonet….

Some management thoughts

Successful businesses are managed. The larger a business becomes, the more closely it should be managed.

What does it mean to manage? Is it a call for increased control?

From The Given Day by Dennis Lehane:

They had a few more drinks and Ruth had to say he’d never seen a couple so in love. They barely touched, and it wasn’t like they got all gooey on each other, talked to each other in baby voices and called each other “dumpling” or anything. Even so, it was like a rope hung between them…

A time…

The danger of this time is that you stop to watch, wonder about what will come next. The parameters that you assessed the future with — economic, social, political — are all at play. You can’t assume, and now there isn’t much confidence that you can project either.