I'm currently in the middle of a full scale clean-up of my office space as I get ready for 2013 and the next phase of my journey (more on that another time). One of the things that I have done over the past several years is collect various quotes and ... [Continue Reading]
My greatest teacher
Many years ago when my children were young, they used to do various things that made me pretty angry in the moment. I realized at the time that they weren't doing anything different that most young kids did, but I would still get angry -- shoes not ... [Continue Reading]
The psychology of change
Several months ago I was lucky enough to stumble across a great blog which I started to subscribe to. PSYBLOG (written by researcher Jeremy Dean studying in the UK) is chock full of interesting studies and findings about how we really work. In ... [Continue Reading]
The sorry state of work-place productivity
In my daily trolling through the internet, I came across this interesting infographic examining the reasons contributing to poor workplace productivity. I think you'll find it interesting to scroll through (shown in its entirety below), and it hits ... [Continue Reading]
transform/21 — the process of mastering change
If you feel like a lot of your life comes down to being a hamster on a wheel, then this blog post may just be worth reading. transform/21 is the formal name of my "mastering change" newsletter, where I share with my readers the best tools, articles, ... [Continue Reading]
Happiness — Dr. Pangloss was right after all
When I was first in university I took a course in "intellectual history" -- or some such grandly labelled conceptual course -- where we studied the works of various big name philosophers like Rousseau, Locke, Marx, Voltaire, and others. Mostly I ... [Continue Reading]
200 years of global economics in 4 minutes — Hans Rosling
If you haven't seen this yet, it is definitely worth watching. Hans Rosling presents a compelling lesson on what two centuries of economic development has looked like for 200 countries -- his work involved developing and plotting out a total of ... [Continue Reading]
Louis C.K. – Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy
If you like the humor of comedian Louis C.K. and are older than about 35, you'll probably really enjoy this video of him with late night talk show host Conan O'Brien from 2009, talking about the rapidly emerging technology world and the sense of ... [Continue Reading]
Three types of people
Quite some time back (years? not sure how many...) I remember coming across this statement about different kinds of people and being quite taken by it. In my experience it really sums up accurately how you can categorize most of the people in your ... [Continue Reading]
Apple Inc. — nothing short of a profit machine
I came across this very interesting -- and very telling -- info-graphic today in my email in-box. I can't validate the actual numbers used, however given that Apple has over the last several years strategically designed a holistic "ecosystem" that ... [Continue Reading]
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