check out jeff bezos, ceo of amazon, commencement speech, “we are what we choose.” seems like jeff and i think a lot alike. “Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life — the life you author from scratch on your own — begins. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will [...]
last week i was asked to respond to this question on technicultr: should social networking sites ask for ethnic information? interesting question so i tried to develop a thoughtful answer. you can judge for yourself, check it out why i said it’s got huge upside, but risky for any current sites to travel down this path: “collecting [...]
dead [ded] -adjective no longer functioning, operating, or productive not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale some people think death only comes once in a lifetime. they’re wrong. death doesn’t only come when you die; it happens the second we come to a place of stagnation in our lives. never stop moving.
last week a huge stir was created around a question posed by a journalist at slate magazine? the title, how black people use twitter, was enough alone to create a frenzy. earlier this week i posted a response to the article that was posted on the globalhue web site. you can check it out here. but here’s a snippet to [...]
derek shivers teaches us, in under 5 minutes, how to start a movement: “remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it’s clearly about the movement, not you…the biggest lesson, if you noticed — did you catch it — is that leadership is over-glorified…it was really the first follower that transformed [...]
last week i wrote a post suggesting that we are all designers and advising that we should not forget to see ourselves as designers and to take a design approach to everything in our life. and while we will design a plethora of things during the years we have on this earth, i offer up [...]
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a good friend of mine shared this video with me the other day, and i believe it is a beautiful and excellent example of someone taking the initiative and determining within themselves that they would design their own life. i hope that, like me, you find this video encouraging, inspiring, and relevant to where you [...]
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