Published under ‘life’

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. –Marion Wright Edelman

Check out this hilarious promotional video for DollarShaveClub.com. The company’s fun sense of humor also extends to their blog contests that engage its consumers with hilarious contests. Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Julianna Storch

“We make a living by what we get, But we make a life by what we give.” -Sir Winston Churchill

Maiyet‘s mission to cultivate business and craft in unexpected places brought the team to Kenya, where director Cary Fukunaga created a beautiful East African love story in Sleepwalking in the Rift. Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Julianna Storch

My friend Fred Schaufeld auto-replied with the following message out of an email account he no longer uses (presumably because it was flooded by junk): Greetings, I now only use this account for stupid jokes, chain letters, and pornography as well as purchases of Viagra (and “V1agra”) discount home mortgages (and “mort gages”), credit repair, [...]

Quote of the Week: Managing Time

Published under Favorite Quotes Nov 30, 2012

“ I see time as sailors see wind, or photographers see light, as something to use, manage, and shape, not as something to be a victim of, or to see go by.” – as written by my friend Martin Varsavsky in his LinkedIn article

As climate changes continue to bring tempestuous weather along the Eastern seaboard, Orrin Pilkey suggests the we begin to retreat from the shores rather than rebuild beachfront properties destined to be devastated again soon. Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Julianna Storch     We Need to Retreat From the Beach By ORRIN H. PILKEY Published: November [...]

We tend to feel our generation invented so much, but the truth is most of what we do has been done before. I was wondering this morning at Holidays as a community exercise: why does society organize itself so everyone has the same break at the same time? Why not celebrate rugged individualism and permit [...]

Quote of the Week: Thanksgiving

Published under Favorite Quotes Nov 21, 2012

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” -Henry Van Dyke

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin