Archive for the ‘ Passion ’ Category
“Now!”, thus spoke a good App to me, “Click on my icon and you shall see, treasures of knowlendge and wisdom so fine, to help you make the most of the daily grind, Excellence, you may claim, if but you will, open me up and take your fill!” App Yourself, by J. Diamond Arnold (A [ READ MORE ]
At some point as a little girl, probably around the age of seven or eight, I decided it was perfectly normal to tell people I was going through my “awkward phase.” It is that inevitable phase in our youth perhaps many of you experienced, where you’re in between sizes, your teeth haven’t decided which way [ READ MORE ]
Think of all the things you have discovered, learned, experienced in the past one thousand days of your life[ READ MORE ]
Your career is an epic journey! Or, at least, it should be—something that Homer or Isaacson would muse about over pages of poetry and prose. Unfortunately, too many careers seem to be cut adrift, floating across an open sea without direction or purpose. Too many are a flat line rather than a brilliant arc that [ READ MORE ]
The drama unfolding in the 2011 World Series of Major League Baseball is nothing short of epic. The Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals have been engaged in a week long back and forth battle that I’m sure even the Greek gods would envy. Now last nights, dramatic, Game 6, instantly known as one of [ READ MORE ]
I have long been a staunch advocate of work-life balance. Though I’ve been reflecting on the principle quite a bit recently and have come to realize that work-life balance is, at best, an abstract concept. Most of us have a general idea or opinion of what work-life balance looks like but there is no standard [ READ MORE ]
“Out, out, brief candle…” William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth The news of Steve Jobs passing was like a hot branding iron, forged amidst the fire of creativity and ingenuity of the Silicon Valley at the turn of the 21st century. True to the brand he forged, the simple, yet elegant pose captured on the home page of [ READ MORE ]
Like it or not, the 2012 race for President of the United States is on! No matter your political point of view, there is an air of excitement (if not at least some curiosity) to see who will rise through the ranks of their party as the nominee for President. Of course, the 2012 election [ READ MORE ]
Steve Jobs is the Thomas Edison of our era! There, I said it. Now all of you Apple haters can stop reading the rest of this post and go back to texting or your version of surfing the Web in bitter disgust. Regardless, Steve Jobs is one of the most prolific visionaries of our era. [ READ MORE ]
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in it! —Shakespeare‘s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I While driving down a Southern California freeway recently, my son and I observed a billboard promotion of a major league baseball team. After some debate [ READ MORE ]
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