I’ve been really disturbed by the photos/videos and other footage of Quadaffi. News shops are plastering the bloody images (from just before and just after his vigilante execution) all over … everywhere I go there’s a picture of his bloody, mashed face, and I’m not looking for it. They’re pushing it. Is it good that [...]
Want a free scary bedtime story for your (older) kids this Halloween? I wrote this one called Throwing Voices, for mine a year ago, but once I finished it I realized that it was a little too disturbing so I didn’t share it with them (yet!). It’s based on a recurring fear I had as [...]
I made up this bedtime story for my girls a few months ago. My 4, 6 and 8 year old all really liked this one. Your kids may like it, too … check it out. Free bedtime story. Gunnar Capewave Fights the Robot Bulls excerpt: Before the robots came, Gunnar only fought real bulls. He [...]
Right out of college I had a job interview to be a web designer for a retailer. I was interviewing with the store owner and we were seated around the store owners computer in his office, looking at the company’s existing website. At that time, everyone used Internet Explorer and the URL field had a [...]
No one person really “creates” a culture. Individuals live their lives and their shared beliefs, desires, and ritualized “transactions” result in the culture established. Cultures are collective contributions. They are “crowd-sourced”. However, there is great power in the individual contributions we choose to make to the cultures we’re in because we can be examples. We [...]
Last night I watched a very artistic music video directed by Tao Ruspoli and then a philosophical/aesthetic commentary on the video, then watched the video again and it was a really fun experience. You might enjoy it (links to video and commentary below). The philosopher who is doing the commentary, Mark Wrathall, taught at BYU [...]
“Manage the risks and the rewards take care of themselves.” – Seth Klarman I define Risk is “a potentiality which, if actualized, presents an adverse outcome for the enterprise.” Risk Management, for me, consists of “working in a systematic way to reduce the probability that those adverse potentialities occur.” At Scrapbook.com we manage risk in [...]
Let me break it down. If you’re demanding government assistance, you’re NOT an entrepreneur. Full stop. Some quotes from the article. “Increasingly, Congress is looking at ways to create jobs at a relatively low cost,” the 29-year-old said. “One of the interesting things about young people is that their barrier to starting a business is [...]
Here’s my take on the Google acquisition of Motorola. Google is an ad platform. Anything else they are into they are into because it enhances the platform. Google has a vested interest in seeing every service/app/etc. on the Internet go to FREE. Why? When something goes for free on the Internet you can virtually have [...]