Category: Ideas
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Give Them Tools
a post that talks about the difference between saving someone and just giving the tools.
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The Culture of Want
We have only been living in a Culture of Want for about a hundred years. Only until we mechanized the production of thing did we start to market to people’s wants. Before that time, it was a Culture of Need. We only bought what we needed. We only built what…
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Twitter Validation
Evidently, there is this Twitter service that you can use that will validate whether a person is following you or some bot is following you. The bot can’t navigate the validation service I guess. So this service is suppose to validate the people that I follow or are following me.…
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Wanting Greatness
I desire greatness…………..in the biblical sense. If you have ever read it, you’d know that you are all called to Greatness – in the biblical sense. If you’ve never read it – it says that if you want to be great in the Kingdom – that you have to become…
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Games and a Better You
I heard a talk from Dr. Jane McGonigal about gaming and game mechanics. She is a game researcher and studies this stuff, but she said a line that stood out to me – games helps to make a better you. Seeing as I study identity, I was interested in that.…
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Social Media Ineptitude
I wanted to write about the Facebook Creeper, but decided to title it Social Media Ineptitude. It sounds nicer than creeper don’t you think? If there is such a thing as a socially inept person – someone that’s just awkward in social situations, then there has to be social media…
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Poverty and Identity
What are you doing about poverty? I guess you need to think that it is your problem before you would do anything about it. We all need to do something about. We all need to at least have an opinion about it. If you don’t feel like you need to…
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When You Name Your Street After Someone
I was in Knoxville this week. We drove through the town. It’s a great little town, but it was quite an experience to drive through UT. Have you ever been? We drove past Payton Manning Pass. There is this illogical, unhealthy fascination with Peyton Manning. There are more babies named…
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Truly Beautiful People
Truly beautiful people do not believe that there are any ugly people in this world. If you just can’t understand that – then you know what kind of person you are. But it’s true, truly beautiful people are able to see the beauty in everyone. Truly beautiful people can be…
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Nickname: White Chocolate
I had some speaking gigs this week. One of the places that we went to, we met a guy. His name was White Chocolate. I think his real name was Tim, but I wasn’t sure. I think I might had heard his real name once. Not sure. It made me…
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Retire the Word
If you listen to any hip hop, you realize that there are some words that are created in these songs that end up eventually in the modern vernacular. Lately, I’ve been hearing quite a few words in really weird contexts. When I hear it in a weird context, I retire…
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