Part 3, Brains on Fire: Interview with Spike Jones
"Everybody wants to be a part of something bigger than themselves." --Spike Jones As a new fan of Brains on Fire and their terrific blog, I experienced how BOF taps into the human desire to belong to something bigger than...
Gingerbread House, Christmas 2009
Thought you would enjoy seeing my friend Bill's annual gingerbread house, that he creates with this teen/young adult kids. It's a family holiday tradition for him and his kids. When was the last time you had this much fun playing...
Part 2, Brains on Fire: Interview with Spike Jones
"People ache for the human connection." --Spike Jones, Chief Firestarter, Brains on Fire In Part 2 of my three-part interview with Spike Jones from Brains on Fire, we cover lots of ground, from what it takes to have a strong...
Brains on Fire: Interview With Spike Jones
Brains on Fire is a brand identity and marketing company that drew my attention with these words on their home page: "Brains on Fire helps organizations build movements." When was the last time you heard a for-profit company talk about...
The Battle of the Brain: http://bit.ly/8RpZZH . History of how societies have embraced left brain or right brain competencies. Both sides are needed.
10 Thoughts on Twitter, A Year Later
It was just about a year ago that I made a commitment to figuring out Twitter and using it on a regular basis. It's now part of my "eco-system" where I can find and interact with kindred spirits. A few...
Year-End Reflections and Planning for 2010
I've always loved the week between Christmas and New Year's, even when I had no vacation days left and found myself working in a deadly quiet office. It's in the stillness that my mind settles down enough to plan for...
Good News for Boundary Crossers in the Job Market
In a Wall Street Journal article, Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind, I was struck by how it described the need to inhabit more than one world to land tomorrow's plum job. The article makes it...