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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Observations from a Rural Outpost
I am spending this week with family in upstate NY. My parents have lived in the same house for close to 45 years, and I love getting up here a couple of times a year to enjoy a change of scenery. A few things have jumped out at me since we have been up here. […]
It’s What We Have
I was listening to an interview with REM the other night on NPR. Michael Stipe and Mike Miles were in studio, talking about closing out three decades of amazing music. I must disclose I don’t care for REM at all, but can acknowledge that their contribution to music is worthy of high praise. Toward the […]
The Privilege of Protest
I witnessed two events in the past week that could not have presented a more different view the world. The first was a fundraiser last Saturday night for an organization based here in Raleigh called Jobs for Life. Jobs for Life equips people for the workforce who have had little or no experience in getting […]
Things Done In Secret – The Mess at Penn State
The happenings at Penn State are another reminder to us all that things done in secret will be shouted from the housetop (or in this case from every housetop). Joe Paterno’s handling of the events around his assistant coach are at best disgusting and at worst criminally negligent. His graduate assistant bears the same responsibility […]
Removing My Email Fix
I am an email junkie. I check my email probably 50 times a day at least, either on my phone or while working at my desk. To paraphrase an old Chicago lyric “Email, you’re a hard habit to break.” However, this week I have set about changing my habits. I did the math on the […]