Category: Quick Thoughts
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Break bread.
One person has a business which installs digital displays into residential elevators. Another spent over a year at senior homes to help develop their product. Another co-founded a YouTube channel featuring lavish cakes and boast over 3.5 million followers. Another co-founded the amazingness that is the DMZ (and was the creative director at the Sydney…
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Your environment is VERY powerful
Learned something pretty interesting yesterday… My lady’s been facilitating some workshops (that will become an exhibition) with some under-resourced youths. Most of them have had a seriously rough upbringing. A significant component of the exercise is to look into the future – what you think will happen, what you want to happen, how it will…
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Being self-aware when you’re irritated…
Lately I’ve been working hard to understand why something irritates me, and then attempting to logically convince myself I don’t need to be irritated. So far I’ve learned that I get irritated a lot.
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A flight is a great place for no distractions
On my flight to Seattle and back, all I did was write; I have four articles lined up for SJO.com now. There was wifi on the plane, but I never enable it. Planes are one of our last few “no distractions” zones we have left.
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Network by being personal
On a recent flight, I had about half a dozen articles open to read. As I read them, I noted who I thought may find it interesting. For example, there was an article on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and what transpired. I had talked to a few people about education in developing countries, and…