December 2009
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Happy New Year Twitter Friends from @RonMarks
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Sweet Release, by local Fort Collins band, Other...
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*SIGH* THE TOTALLY EXPECTED RIGHT-WING AVATAR... →
So the conservatives sympathize and side with the mercenaries hired to protect rapacious corporate interests in the movie Avatar. I, for one, am not only not surprised, but am “anti-” whatever their version of “American” is, as a moral principle. How could one side of the political spectrum be on the wrong side of EVERYTHING?!?!
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Avatar and Our Goofy Self-Image as Saviours
via youtube.com Let me save you… from ME. Posted via web from Idea Portfolio | Comment »
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WatchThe Onion reports on college males…
justan:
The Onion — Report: Most College Males Admit To Regularly Getting Stoked
“Have you ever seen someone who’s stoked? They’re all like, “Dude, dude…. try these nachos.”
(via amyyy)
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The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss — Disclosure – The...
Disclosure – The Full Monty This blog is not primarily financially driven. If it were, I would have advertising and sell more stuff. That said, beginning December 1, 2009, the FTC requires bloggers to provide disclosures whenever there could be hidden interests or unspoken biases related to recommendations. First, the obvious: I am a tech investor and advisor. Here are some of the...
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there...
lycanpedia:
reluctantbuddha:
Albert Camus
Durango Herald News, Jobless fund running out of... →
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Irony at its best [pic]
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Art of War, Chapter 6
via vimeo.com Chapter 6 talks about strengths and weaknesses, an “alchemy of opposites,” and I relate that to personal and leadership development Posted via web from Idea Portfolio | Comment »
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Watchgary:
It is 2010….you can get to anyone…just grab it
I am stunned by people not seeing the fact that you can get to just about anyone, so … do it
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Resolutions mean you've DECLINED GRATIFICATION!
via youtube.com On Champagne, John Maynard Keynes, and the stupid habit of making of New Year’s Resolutions. And I make my first New Year’s Resolution in over a decade, oddly enough. Posted via web from Idea Portfolio | Comment »
Cinema 2009 in 7 minutes
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“What was truly impressive about the decade past, however, was our unwillingness,...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Big Zero - NYTimes.com
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"Deliberate Practice and Novelty" video
via viddler.com Recorded a year ago, this is a discussion of the concept of deliberate practice, and a question as to whether it can be applied to domains where there is a lot of novelty and chaos (such as leadership, strategy, or the arts or anything requiring creativity and improvisation). What say you? Posted via web from Idea Portfolio | Comment »
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“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via) (via vasta)
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"Neural Darwinism" [video]
via viddler.com This is a video I did for my coaching clients last winter that I wanted to share here on this blog. The question is, how should we understand the connection between the brain and behavior change? In essence, if you understand how the brain makes connections and forms habits, you can more strategically change your behavior. Posted via web from Idea...
“The downside, though, is that sometimes what gets done isn’t worth doing. The...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
“The left has been frustrated, again and again, by the gulf between Obama’s...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
“It’s also puzzling because Obama promised exactly the opposite approach while...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
“Every presidency is the subject of competing caricatures. But almost a year into...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
“Belfiore recalls a recent conversation with an Iraq war amputee about whether...”
– Book Review - History of Darpa - ‘The Department of Mad Scientists,’ by Michael Belfiore - Review - NYTimes.com
“So maybe you’ll let a robot fix your body. But would you let one join your body?...”
– Book Review - History of Darpa - ‘The Department of Mad Scientists,’ by Michael Belfiore - Review - NYTimes.com
“So maybe we’ll let robots drive our cars. But would you let a robot cut you...”
– Book Review - History of Darpa - ‘The Department of Mad Scientists,’ by Michael Belfiore - Review - NYTimes.com
“With each delegation of power, we become more comfortable with computers driving...”
– Book Review - History of Darpa - ‘The Department of Mad Scientists,’ by Michael Belfiore - Review - NYTimes.com
“According to Wade, a New York Times science writer, religions are machines for...”
– Book Review - ‘The Faith Instinct - How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures,’ by Nicholas Wade - Review - NYTimes.com
Book Review - History of Darpa - 'The Department... →
Two years ago, in his book “Rocketeers,” Michael Belfiore celebrated the pioneers of the budding private space industry. Now he has returned to explore a frontier closer to home. The heroes of his new book, “The Department of Mad Scientists,” work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as Darpa, a secretive arm of the United States government. And the revolution they’re...
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Project Censored: The top 10 stories not brought...
23 DEC 2009 • by Rebecca Bowe Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he’s finished with reform. It’s impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy. “I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” said...
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Christmas Wishes with Che
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FAIL Blog: Baptists and Bookstores (adult...
via failblog.org Ha Ha. I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for this… Posted via web from Daydreaming Idly | Comment »
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WatchRobert Wright and Christopher Hitchens debate religion on Bloggingheads.tv
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To Murder -[video] The...
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“Okay, so President Obama didn’t run for office to help out a bunch of fat...”
– Hostage Situation - Clusterfuck Nation
The value of being an unrealistic daydreamer
“It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them.” - Robert Musil, The...
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Condolences to Gen Y
A friend of mine (@ImNickArmstrong) has sensitized me to the differences in culture between generations, even between Gen X (me) and Gen Y (him), so as I reflect about our country at the present moment I’d like to offer my condolences to Gen Y. My condolences on the job market. It’s the worst of my lifetime, the worst of my parents’ lifetime, and it’s the only one...
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Councilman under fire for atheism →
Cecil Bothwell, a member of the Unitarian Universalist church, declined to mention God in his swearing-in ceremony. Angry conservatives say his stance violates the state constitution.
What if climate change is a hoax? [comic]
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Watch@garyvee on effort and the scalability of your personal brand :
Is Effort enough to Scale?
I think way too many people don’t think a person, or a personal brand or even a consumer brand can scale but I think effort is massively under rated, what do you guys think?
Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version.
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“Troubled home loans continued to mount in the nation’s banks in the third...”
– More prime mortgages default in 3rd quarter — latimes.com (via shorterexcerpts)
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Record lobbyist spending reveals basic problem... →
shorterexcerpts:
southpol:
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jonathan-cunningham:
Washington’s influence industry is on track to shatter last year’s record $3.3 billion spent to lobby Congress and the rest of the federal government — and that’s with a down economy and about 1,500 fewer registered lobbyists in town, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics. Many lobbying firms have...
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“Obama, like so many Democrats in Congress, has fallen prey to the conventional...”
– Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
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“President Roosevelt had no legs to stand on, but he sure had spine.”
– Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
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“The problem with the president’s strategic team is that they don’t...”
– Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator