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Be careful what you wish for…

Mar 9, 2012

Just this week I said to one of my best clients, “The point of our work together is not to build you your most successful business (although we are doing that too), it is to build you the best life you want, which includes a business that challenges and inspires...

Words to live by from the dawn of technology

Feb 3, 2012

I’ve been thinking of all those pithy sayings about living our lives, like the Chinese “May you live in interesting times” and “Be careful what you wish for…” And I have found my new message. So, I am only about 50 pages into the...

On Steve Jobs

Oct 6, 2011

Steve Jobs died yesterday, shortly after stepping down from one of the most innovative technology companies in the world, Apple:  a company he founded, and was fired from, and returned to, and then built into a new market standard. And he built a second company,...

Technology in support of our minds and passions

Sep 23, 2011

My client told me an interesting story last week.  He was boarding the plane in New York to come home to Los Angeles, iPad in hand.  He had just spent 2 days in meetings with a new client, clarifying their initial transmedia strategy, so he could continue a long...

Paul Hawken’s “Healing or Stealing?” 2009 commencement address

Aug 2, 2011

It is time to return to the ideas in this address by the brilliant Paul Hawken, from 2009’s University of Portland graduation.  Some excerpts here~ The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of...