Differentiation

Advent and the Most Pernicious Program of All

December 20, 2011

Here’s the third post in my Advent and Star Trek series where we actually get to the advent part! This was originally posted on December, 3, 2011 ————————— So have you ever thought of Star Trek’s “Borg” and Advent in the same thought and discussion? Probably not. But here it goes. Of course context helps [...]

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Self: The Most Pernicious Program of All

December 17, 2011

Here’s the second post of my re-release of this advent series. This post was originally posted December 1st, 2010. ———————————– This is part two out of three of a mini-blog series on what I’m calling “collective fusion.” This won’t make as much sense without part one so for part one click here. In part one [...]

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Collective Fusion – Resistance is not Futile

December 15, 2011

I’m re-posting an advent series as we approach Christmas. These posts sparked a lot of discussion last year for me so I’m excited to re-release them. This post was first posted on November 30th, 2010. ————————- All right…Here’s one for you trekkies! Actually three since this is part one of three posts on the theme [...]

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I’m Not A Part of This System! I’m an Adult!

August 14, 2011

If you thought I beyond analyzing philosophical statements left on dirty cars you were wrong! This was just too tempting for me. My family pulled up next to this car today as my wife and I were doing skin cancer checks at the dermatologist. The window graffiti offers the following declaration of empowerment, “I’m not [...]

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Jumping the Line as a Moral Act

March 9, 2011

I read this recently from Seth Godin on innovation and the status quo… “Too often, we’re persuaded that initiative and innovation and bypassing the status quo is some sort of line jumping, a selfish gaming of the zero sum game. Most of the time it’s not. In fact, what you do when you solve an [...]

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Wanting Something That’s Just Not There

January 25, 2011

So my wife after reading my blog post on Jay Cutler yesterday and after reading some of what’s out there online said the following line to me today, “It’s pretty evident that a lot of people really want something from him that he’s not able to give.” She’s genius always, but really loved her assessment [...]

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Thoughts on Kind of a Funny Story

November 2, 2010

My wife and have taken a couple days to get away before our baby comes and eliminates the chance to get away just the two of us for awhile. Not much compares with getting some time away with my wife – mostly to rest and talk about things we don’t get a chance to connect [...]

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De-Fusing from Authority (Is the GPS always right?)

November 1, 2010

This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

I had one of those experiences recently where I was listening to a GPS give me directions and something didn’t seem right. And it wasn’t. I was being told to U-Turn when I knew I was only a couple blocks away from my destination that was programmed in. I ignored the GPS and within 60 [...]

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Leading Three Sheets to the Wind

September 11, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

I thought for the next installment of my unorganized series of posts that I could call “Leading on the Seas” that I would choose one of the more colorful terms in sailing lore – three sheets to the wind. I’ve been physically about 50% or less for the past 10 days so I’m excited to [...]

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