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Step 59: Ingenuity

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” ~ George Smith Patton This weekend I began my yoga teacher training. After 16 hours over two days, my body is drained and sore, and my mind is full, in a good way. I gave [...]

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Step 58: Kopernik – Connect Breakthrough Technologies to the People Who Need Them Most

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. It traces the travels, travails, and triumphs of Dr. Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health (PIH). PIH has been at the forefront of the Haitian earthquake coverage. For decades, Farmer has been plugging away in Haiti, [...]

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Step 57: Igniteshow.com – a New Site by O’Reilly Media

O’Reilly Media is at it again – offering up innovation and creative inspiration at the click of a button. In conjunction with Global Ignite Week, O’Reilly Media is serving up extraordinary ingenuity by and for ordinary people through their new site igniteshow.com. And here’s the best part – all the inspiring videos on the site [...]

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Step 56: My Alltop Listing

Natalia from New York Women Social Entrepreneurs suggested to me that I put together an Alltop page to keep track of all of the tech blogs I’m utilizing to get up to speed on my new job. A few weeks ago, I put the page together and have been making good use of it ever [...]

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Examiner.com: Interview with Brandon Kessler, Founder of ChallengePost

Everyone loves a good contest, especially when it’s a contest that organized, efficient, and dealing with cutting edge challenges that need to be solved. Enter ChallengePost, the conduit that makes contests accessible and fun, and delivers powerful , buzz-worthy results. With ChallengePost, competition truly is a game again. Click here for the full interview with [...]

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Step 55: Smart Cookies

I’ve heard a lot of people resolve to get a hold of their finances in 2010. 2009 knocked us all for a loop. Almost every one of our preconceptions about working and earning was turned on its head last year, and we’ve vowed to never be in that position again. Trouble is, how are we [...]

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Step 54: A Parade of Orange

Today I packed up my desk at work and at this very moment, the orange moving crates have are moving to a new floor where I’ll be sitting and working starting tomorrow. As a Pisces, the end of the zodiac cycle, I like endings because they allow us to complete a goal and look forward [...]

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Step 53: The Gift of Clans

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ~Jane Howard, British actress, model and novelist This past week, I’ve been getting emails and phone calls from so many incredible people I worked with in my former position, [...]

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Step 52: Signs of Life

Yesterday I spent most of the day outside running errands and meeting up with friends. As I headed down Broadway in the morning, I could feel the Earth yawning and stretching. It was warm for a February day in New York City, 50 degrees. Birds were chirping, skies were blue. I breathed in, breathed out, [...]

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Step 51: Fixing Broken Systems

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Band-aid solutions are tempting options. They tend to be inexpensive, fairly easy to implement, and make us feel like we’re doing something good for the world. [...]

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