Three Types of Boundary Crossers
When I think back on the kinds of boundary crossers that I've run into, they seem to fall into three camps: Individuals who have had a successful career in one area and a passionate hobby in another world (e.g., software...
Jet Lag, Part 2
In my posting titled Jet Lag, I talked about catching up your beliefs, behaviors, and mindset to who you are today. The same type of "jet lag" can happen with catching up to who others are now. For the last...
The Long Tail
I finished The Long Tail by Chris Anderson a couple of weeks ago but have been procrastinating writing a post about it. Maybe it's because there's so much that resonates with me that it's hard to pick one or two...
If You Want to Grow Your Career, Grow Your Community
That's the title of an event that I'll be facilitating for Asian-American women on Sept 21 in Denver. We'll be looking at how to network in a meaningful and natural way, what the participants know about success and failure in...
Ambient Awareness, Twitter, and Eco-Systems
Two people pointed me to this blog posting about Twitter and how it creates "ambient awareness" of each other. Actually, the posting is an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine article published on Sept 7. What I notice is...
New Episodes of Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving
Two new episodes of the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving podcast, "Choosing the Bigger Story," and "Joy and the Greater Good," are now available. This brings the number of episodes available to eight, with another ten episodes in the pipeline. For...
Founder of Flickr on Community
A quote from Stewart Butterfield, founder of Flickr:"A lot of our success came from George, the lead designer, and Caterina. Both of them spent a lot of time in the early days greeting individual users as they came in, encouraging...
A New Blogger in the Family
I've been the sole blogger in the family (underground bloggers excepted--you never know.) Until now. Ryan, my 24-year old nephew just started blogging about his new adventure, a year in downtown Oakland, as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. His...
