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miley ‘sigh’rus moments 27 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
So. Miley Cyrus and the VMAs <video music awards>. Quite the uproar, huh? I had initially mapped out some thoughts on her freakishly big tongue and her innate desire to share it with all of us but f...
books on decisions and change 27 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
“We are Roman and Mikael. We write books and we draw on chalkboards.” – authors of The Decision Book and The Change Book “The essential model grab bag for thinking.” – McTague review of these t...
how parents have little effect on how you turn out (parenting part 1) 25 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
Ah. …. “the apple never falls far from the tree.” How often do we hear this as an explanation for why someone is, or does, as they are? <too often>. My quote? “It doesn’t matter how far the appl...
growing up is different today (parenting part 2) 25 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
Well. Because I just posted an article on the lack of influence parents have on their kids <okay … not lack … just the extent of influence> … I thought would post some research to address some mis-p...
silence speak 22 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
“… you make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”― Edmond Jabès Listening. Lis...
obsessing over time 21 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
“Night and stars. Time moving fast but too slow. Sad, but also happy decisions taken, bridges to cross.” – <possibly Neruda … but for sure written in a William Montalbano book> “A work measurement...
how 50somethings are an impediment to progress 20 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
“The only thing that has ever made me feel old is those few times where I allow myself to be predictable.” – Carlos Santana Well. While I will certainly piss some people off by suggesting 50someth...
intensely right words 19 Aug 2013 | 05:05 am
“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.” ― Nikolai Gogol <Dead Soul>s “Word power can plow through acres of cornfields, Paragraphs cut like warm steel” – Jurassic 5 (song: Wha...
nothing remains but certain shreds of the wall 16 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
“Of these houses Nothing remains But certain shreds of the wall. Of so many Who were close to me Nothing is left Not even that. Of my heart No room still stands Where it lies In the most torture...
all that said … branding theory aside 16 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
“A brand cannot be invented by an advertising agency or a marketing department. A brand is a sum of all its actions. Who it is, what it does, what the world expects of it. We can only tell its stories...
