I think I’ve figured it out – the secret to leading a full life is to string together as many meaningful experiences as possible. Think about it – when we fall into predictable routines, life becomes dull. It loses its luster. We get up. We go to work. We come home. We do it again the next day. If we’re lucky, this grind is dotted with exciting nuggets that keep things interesting. But for most of us, this is how…
The most valuable resource on the planet isn’t petroleum or gold, it’s time. And everyone is only given a little bit of it. But time itself is static. It lacks energy. Energy is what pushes us through life. Like time, energy is a precious resource. We gain energy from the sun, and from consuming other life forms that also took its energy from the sun. We use that energy in our waking time, and recharge when we sleep. Energy is…
You’ll often see me tweet the same blog posts over and over. When I write one, I push it onto my Facebook and Google+ pages and into my Linkedin stream – once. But I’ll tweet it several times over the course of a couple days. If you haven’t noticed, Twitter is different. Nobody goes and hangs out on someone’s Twitter page waiting for them to tweet something. No, on Twitter we are all swimming in a big pool together. We…
I just killed Foursquare. I went down to the pawn shop and bought a big buck knife; then came home, donned camouflage face paint, jumped off of my couch and landed on my phone – slamming the knife down with both hands. Then I held my head up high and twisted the knife around inside of the heart of the application. And it was over. And it was good. Foursquare is officially dead to me. I’m done with ‘checking in.’ I’m…
Connectivity. That’s all this is. And it’s brilliant. But is it worth the energy and attention of so many people the day Facebook goes public? Really? For what, money? The prospect of money? Because at our core, money and power are all we really desire as humans? I wonder what would happen if we allocated 10% of the energy we spend on the pursuit of money and power into ideas that would better the world for everyone. What about solving…
To be a good American is to be a contributing member of society. And to be a contributing member of society means being a functioning part of America’s commercial engine. At our core, all Americans are resources of money. Pie charts that everyone wants a piece of. Restaurants, Doctors, Lawyers, Car Makers, Tax Collectors, Cable Companies, Computer Companies, Hollywood – you name it, to them we are all just these little pockets of oil that they mine. Valuable, but exhaustible…
