Why I’m Helping Haiti The Way I Am

[If you're reading this in a feed reader or email, you might have to click through to watch the video.] This one’s hard to nail. It’s a video follow-up to my last post and includes some of the background of why I’m doing what I’m doing, but it also addresses the negative feedback I’ve gotten [...]

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How to Think About Possibility – And Why It Matters

The idea of possibility is so embedded into our thinking and language that we often forget that it’s something to think about, but it turns out that a deeper understanding of possibility can radically change our lives for the better. I’ve been thinking about possibilities for a good while now and have been slowly synthesizing [...]

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When Helping Someone Else Helps You

This is the first post in a series about ethical entrepreneurship. In this part of the series, we ask what’s the difference between being helped as an entrepreneur versus being helped as a person.

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Would You Buy Happiness?

I’ve been thinking about a few ideas for the last couple of weeks, and rather than launch into what I think, I’d love to hear what you think. So, here we go: Let’s pretend that I developed a process that will make you happy if you walk through the steps. And, by happy, I don’t [...]

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Meaning Comes From Us

(If you’re reading this via RSS or email, you may have to click through to watch the video.) Today’s one-take wonder is a response to a brief Twitter exchange I had with Ali Hale and incorporates a conversation I had with Sonia Simone at Blogworld. Note the botched ending; I tried re-recording, but, as usual, [...]

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What We Gave Up When We Gained Abundance

We went camping the weekend before last and managed to do so without injury. It turns out that slowing down to a sustainable, mindful pace and going with the right tools makes a huge difference. If that were all I had to talk about, I probably would have tweeted it. There’s more, though… This was [...]

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What If Women Cared About Productivity?

Bear with me on this one. It’s an interwoven critique of productivity and sexual essentialism with constructive paradigm shifting on the side. Here’s what I’m asking you to do: Broaden your notions of “productivity” Consider how gender roles and socialization script what people care about A common issue that I’ve heard from women is the [...]

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Plastic Soup, Deformed Turtles, and Getting Over Ourselves

I saw the picture above yesterday and my heart sank. I found it here, and while the article was powerful in relation to what’s going on with the large plastic dumps on either side of Hawaii, the turtle is what broke me. I’ve been trying to figure out why. Maybe because I had turtles as [...]

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Why Waiting For Your Time to Be Great Leads to Failure

A whole train of passengers (individually brave enough) will be looted by a few highwaymen, simply because the latter can count on one another, while each passenger fears that if he makes a movement of resistance, he will be shot before anyone else backs him up. If we believed that the whole car-full would rise [...]

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