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Group Email Attaboy Syndrome

I’ve been noticing what is becoming a fairly regular email social pattern and it is starting to grate on me. I would like to coin it Group Email Attaboy Syndrome. The pattern is fairly simple:
A Manager sends out recent accomplishment of team to large distribution, “I would like to announce the release of version 1.2 [...]

Artifacts from the Future - Personal Marketing

The last page of Wired magazine has a spot titled “Artifacts from the Future” which creatively illustrates a possible future. With the growth of personal publishing I feel like it is only a matter of time before we see this one.
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A damn good chicken soup

My wife caught a bit of a flu in Montana so I made homemade chicken soup (early) this morning. It has taken me awhile to get my chicken soup recipe to where it worked well so I thought I would write up the process in case anybody else has sick non-vegetarians that need a good [...]

Make something worth making

Seth Godin writes a blog I look forward to reading each night. One of today’s posts is a great example of why:
Make something worth making.
Sell something worth talking about.
Believe in what you do because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
Don’t listen to the first people who give [...]

Rock, scissors, paper…and fire, and water

This post is brought to you by Portland Airport wireless access. Thanks Portland.
John’s off topic link to a large set of additions to rock, scissors, paper reminded me of my high school and college years where most things were decided using this fantastically psychological game. And when I say everything, I mean everything. From the [...]