By Drex Davis on October 21, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Brain, Technology
By Drex Davis on October 12, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, StoryCircle.com, Storytelling
By Drex Davis on October 4, 2011
Debt is evil. Debt is good. It all depends …. I think about debt the following way and I feel like it helps me harness the goodness of debt while mitigating its evilness. What is debt? Debt is money borrowed from a party who does not have a better alternative use for it in the [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Investing, Mimetic Theory, Smartifying, Strategy, Systems, Value
By Drex Davis on September 23, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, StoryCircle.com, Storytelling
By Drex Davis on September 16, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Technology, Uncategorized
By Drex Davis on August 30, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Happiness, Mimetic Theory
By Drex Davis on August 26, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, Music, Storytelling
By Drex Davis on August 23, 2011
“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 [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Scrapbook.com, Strategy, Systems, Technology, Uncategorized, Value
By Drex Davis on August 16, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Economics
By Drex Davis on August 15, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Software, Strategy, Systems, Technology