Posted in education, Penn on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.” ~Allen H. Nehart On my way to DC yesterday, my train rolled past Penn, my undergrad alma mater. We had a little engine trouble so we were stuck at 30th Street Station for about 15 minutes. Penn is right there, [...]
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Posted in apple, business, Mac, Steve Jobs, technology on June 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m a little bit disturbed this afternoon. My boss sent me an article from today’s Fortune Magazine regarding the fate of Apple should Steve Jobs be hit by a bus. There are a myriad of comments flying around on-line about who would be best suited to take the reigns. And then I flipped through the [...]
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Posted in Africa, education, media, science, technology, TED on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a profound belief in the West that if we throw enough money at a problem, the problem will ultimately go away. I’m not sure how or when or by whom this misconception was started. I do know it runs deep in this country, and recent world events have shown its fragility. I read [...]
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Posted in business, Business Week, Jon Fine, media, news on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Fine’s article in this week’s issue of Business Week discusses a new news provider, Daylife. As a devoted fan of the news and someone who believes that the plethora of new media channels can help to reinvent traditional media, I am intrigued by Daylife’s business model. Daylife is a news aggregator that splits revenue [...]
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Posted in books on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been a fan of Stephenie Meyer’s writing since reading a New York Times story about her almost a year ago. In the post-Harry Potter world, the literary community was looking for the next J.K. Rowling, a writer who would explore the impossible in an effort to inspire us in our current lives. Her [...]
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Posted in career, economy, education, money, Real Simple, relationships, travel on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the current state of the economy, every news cast, newspaper, magazine, and radio station has been offering a nightly segment on making our money go further by cutting expenses, shifting our investments, and finding places with bargains. Money experts like Jean Chatzky and Suze Orman are encouraging us to live within or below our [...]
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Posted in dating, education, learning, new media, technology on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the BlogHer Conference, I heard Kerry Miller speak about her inspiration for her blog, PassiveAggressiveNotes.com. She was on a terrible date, explaining the passive aggressive notes her roommates would leave one another on post-its. She joked that she should put them on a blog, and she did, and the rest is history. It’s now [...]
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Posted in simplicity, writer, writing on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been working on a few projects that require one simple thing: simplicity. While we crave it, work for it, buy all kinds of books and gadgets that claim to be able to make our lives simple, simplicity often alludes us. Recently, I sat with a team member to craft a memo. She kept [...]
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During a slow week at work I have been hunting around for projects that add value and help out a colleague who may be drowning. My friend, Kate, needed help drafting planograms, drawings that layout where each type of product goes in a specific area of the store. I got several dozen blank layouts, on [...]
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Posted in business, career, leader, leadership on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine was recently telling me about a company he recently left after a 10-year tenure. He had the privilege to work for the CEO for the last half of his time there, and is still inspired by that CEO’s clarity about the business and his ability to inspire everyone at the company. [...]
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