A few weeks back I was having breakfast with Bruce Benedict, the proprietor and creator of Cardiphonia. Cardiphonia is a music label in the 21st century sense of the word, focused on helping upcoming artists in a niche space (sacred music). Bruce is one of those guys that you can’t help but love watching. He […]
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MLK
I read this quote on Seth Godin’s blog today from Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s tremendous, and worth repeating, especially with the circus we are about to endure in an election year. “The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative […]
Would You Like Some Bland With That?
I spent the week between Christmas and New Years in Tulsa, OK visiting family. On one of the days my wife and I decided to go get some coffee (or tea in my case). There were, of course, sixteen Starbucks within a five mile radius of where we were, but I wanted something different. We […]
The Number Two
A man with two clocks never knows the time. A man cannot serve two masters. These independent thoughts have in common the distraction of having two of something. In the case of business, this might be having two competing objectives, or to be more to the point not having one clear objective. I think there […]
Books to Read – January 2012
I usually pull most of the books I recommend each month from my current reading list. Last month, however, was a particularly bad month for reading for me. I seemed to get in a rut of books I didn’t like and had a hard time getting out of it. That is, until the last week […]
Starting With @ – A Common Twitter Misunderstanding
If you use Twitter, there is a well-kept secret about starting your tweets with @. If the first character in your tweet is a Twitter address (e.g. @joeblow), only the people that follow both you and @joeblow will be able to see the tweet. Here is how it works: Tweet: I am good friends with […]
Nothing is Fatal
Except, well, death. When I am in periods like I am right now, where everything is going sideways, it’s a good reminder that there are very few things that are unrecoverable. As a companion to this idea, Seth Godin’s post yesterday about failure and mistakes was another reminder that every decision made, while not fatal […]
On Liberty
I rarely delve into politics on this blog. The reason for this is that I aim primarily for this blog to be informative and interesting, and politics is usually neither. There are times, however, when the laws being considered and passed by the United States government need to be talked about. Such is the case […]
You Never Know Who’s in the Room
A few years back I went to see a Switchfoot concert at a college nearby. At the time I knew who they were, but would not have considered myself a fan. At the urging of my brother, I went to see them. The concert venue was lousy, and there was almost no one there. Probably […]
Books to Read – December 2011
As we wind down 2011, the following is my must-read list for December. These books are a combination of recently read and a classic that have a theme of great adversity and the triumph of the human soul. Seems fitting for the end of this year. I hope you enjoy all of them! Unbroken: A […]