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Consider This::006 Toilet

After months and months of delays (due in part to a lost camera and also due in part to slow internet upload speeds in hotels), here is another edition of the Consider This videos. These will start to appear a lot more frequently over the coming months (with the exception of weeks with bad hotel […]
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This Train is Bound for Glory

So last Saturday my girlfriend and I were able to attend the Railroad Revival Tour during its stop in Tempe. We went mainly to see Mumford & Sons, a band which we both love. Their songs and their sound just connect with me, and as I described last December, their music has served as a […]
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Toolbox: The Launch

This past Friday, I received an email from TOMS shoes. The subject: No Longer Just Shoes. It went on to say that “The next chapter of One for One is coming. June 7th 2011.” I’ve been of a fan of TOMS shoes for quite sometime, so I definitely clicked on the embedded video. TOMS: The […]
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Friday Finish 04.22.11

Here is the third installment of Friday Finish, a new post for my blog highlighting my posts for the week and some other great blog entries by other authors. Videos will soon be returning to my site next week as I won’t have to deal with the hotel internet upload speed problem. Thank you for […]
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Giant Service

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not the biggest baseball fan anymore. The 1994-1995 strike killed most of my enthusiasm for the game. While I’ll still go to a game from time to time, and I definitely enjoy a pick-up game with friends, I no longer read the daily paper, observing the status of my favorite […]
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Toolbox: Strategies for Effective Facebook Wall Posts

There is no denying the presence of facebook these days. It’s become a part of our daily life. Many get their breaking news from it, share birthday greetings via it, and engage with friends and colleagues through it. Quite simply, it is a medium we must use now to communicate with our memberships and our […]
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Friday Finish 04.15.11

Here is the second installment of Friday Finish, a new post for my blog highlighting my posts for the week and some other great blog entries by other authors. Videos will soon be returning to my site. I’ve been traveling a bunch over the past two weeks and I’ve found that the upload speeds for […]
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14 years and still enjoying the path

I don’t think I’ve ever been that nervous before. It was a constant state of nerves. I had thrown up each morning for the past three days, and had been unable to eat anything not because I was sick, but rather because I was nervous. And now, it came down to this moment. I stood […]
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Packing the Umbrella

I’m composing this message in the San Jose airport, awaiting my flight home to Phoenix. I spoke to some awesome high school students at a few assemblies today in Ceres, California. Since I was going to need to fly into San Jose anyways, and it happened to be my mom’s birthday yesterday, I decided to […]
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