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Stop conversing and start doing.
(Bringing in more people to converse is not doing. Generating more ideas is not doing. Creating proposals is not doing.)
At the end of the day, you will still remain shifted from center in the work you “do.” Recognize it and move on.
“Give a person a fish, that person [...]

The Wisconsin Legislature endorsed online, virtual academies in a draft measure that would provide state funding and keep their keyboards open in the fall, overruling an earlier circuit court decision to shutter the institutions. Teachers unions are crying foul, but for everyone else this is a win-win. The academies win in being allowed [...]

This is by far the most bizarre story of the day year.

I don’t know why I’ve gotten hung up in the news about the NASA MESSENGER program. Its Macworld week — and visions of MacBook Airs should be floating in my head, but instead its space.
Once they said space was the final frontier, and indeed it still is. After colonizing the world, taming the [...]

One of the features in January’s National Geographic is titled “The Emptied Prairie” and explores the increasing number of ghost towns in North Dakota. (If you don’t want to take time to read the story — which I encourage you to do — at least take a look at the stunning photography.)
I’ll admit it [...]

Last week, Penelope Trunk (of the Boston Globe) posted one of the most interesting blogs I’ve read in a while related to generational differences in today’s society and workplace. An excerpt:
The victories of Generation Y will not look like the Boston Tea Party or Kent State. They will look like this Iowa caucus: Gen [...]

A few weeks ago, I discovered one of the greatest things I missed from my former church. The list of things I would change — both about the ELCA and the UCC, and my individual churches previous — are myriad, and the rituals I thought I would miss from the Lutheran church are not [...]

Our beautiful snow is gone. Glad I took this picture this morning on my way to work since what was here is even gone now.