Month: July 2011

  • Worrying

    I’ve never met anyone who didn’t worry about something at some point or another. The things that are of concern to one person could very well be things that another person will never care about, ever. After having personally wasted too much time and energy worrying about things that I can’t do anything about, and…

  • Helpless

    Tonight I witnessed something beyond upsetting. The President’s speech on the debt crisis was surreal enough, but what followed from the Speaker of the House just made the situation even more bizarre. As I sat watching the two elected leaders speak I couldn’t help but think that this seemed like a scene from a poorly…

  • Opinions

    Everyone has opinions and while I am a believer of the mindset that opinions can’t be wrong because they’re subjective, I am certainly suspect to how opinions, including my own, are formed. Opinions aren’t formed in a vacuum, they are shaped by a lifetime of experiences. Some are more important than others, but the sum…

  • Showing Up

    Ideas are a dime a dozen and promises are easy to make, but what separates the dreamers from those who are actually making a difference is one thing. Their willingness to show up. If you come up with a great way to improve your workplace, but you do nothing to see it come to fruition,…

  • Map Maker

    Today Google tweeted about a guy who decided to map Kazakhstan. Yes, the entire country. For those of you who don’t want to go read the news article, the summary is that Kyril Negoda discovered that his home country wasn’t mapped on Google, so he took it upon himself to use Google’s Map Maker tool…