Sometimes while mowing my lawn I drift off into some crazy internal philosophical discussions. Today’s started out with equal parts nonsense and rationality, but ended up being something significant and share-worthy. Here it…
our thinking about Emotions & Feelings…
Are you relevant?
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – General Eric Shinseki, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (retired) We were discussing the concept of relevance at the long table (we love t…
Change the Culture, Change the World
“It is not a matter of business as usual, it is a matter of total innovation in business models, in operations, in marketing too. Total innovation tends to go one of two ways: ignominious failure or drastic success.” …
Hacking the Light Fantastic
“Hacking means taking things that suck and making them better.” – Umair Haque From Harvard Business Press blog writer Umair Haque: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/last_week_i_asked_how.html There are p…
The Death of Education, the Dawn of Learning
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein I have two kids who are growing up in a world that is vastly different from the one I grew up in… differe…
What are you afraid of?
“I’m afraid of asking questions. I’m afraid of making mistakes. I’m afraid of sharing my ideas. I’m afraid of what people might think. I’m afraid of what people might do. I’m afraid of the endless possibilities.&…
The end of Nau
“We only deserve to exist if our products and our practices are capable of contributing positive, lasting and substantive change. We want to be that company, that positive, lasting, substantive company. We’ll screw up …
Deed brands.
Continuing the idea of the future of communications and the talking less/listening more approach, here’s a great post on the Era of Deeds by Mark Barden, one of the partners of Eat Big Fish. The Spitzer Effect and the Era of…
Substance Year One Cavalcade of Awesomeness Recap
Sorry to be a bit late on the recap, but we wanted to sincerely thank everyone who made it out to the Substance Cavalcade of Awesomeness Celebration. And despite having multiple cameras at the event, we took about 9 photos, four o…
You can’t dismiss the importance of inspiration.
“…if you are talking about trying to lead a movement, trying to change the world, then you sure as hell better be an inspiring figure. You don’t have to be slick or polished… but you do necessarily have to …


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