My purpose is to be me a catalyst a spark (ok, maybe even a full-on flame) for change through art through stories through action My purpose is to serve to enable and to empower others and ourselves to expand our realm of the possible My purpose is to unlock the creative force in myself in [...]

The July 3rd issued of New York Magazine features an article about The Analog Underground, “[a] new generation of digital apostates rejects zeroes and ones in favor of celluloid, vinyl, ink, paper, and the click-clack-ding-slide of a typewriter.”  I came across the article rather serendipitously online in the course of some research I have been [...]

First up, the full disclosure. I got a free review copy from the promoter of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. I’m pretty sure they offered me the review copy because of the review I did of Tony Hsieh’s Delivery Happiness.  I also want to say that I don’t normally read [...]

Can a company really deliver happiness?  That is a question that Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh tries to answer in his new book, Delivering Happiness (out today!). He certainly delivered happiness to me as a blogger when I received a free review copy of the book a couple months ago.  With that disclosure taken care of, [...]

Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish newspaper, came out with an article yesterday about the internet phenomenon (and now book) Stuff White People Like.  It’s got some great commentary and a precious interview with the SWPL author Christian Lander.  Here is the original article (in Swedish) My rough translation below: Photo caption: Christian Lander makes fun of [...]