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Category: Ideas

  • My Boston Identity

    I watched Boston beat Orlando tonight – while having lovely dinner with DC. Now, I am a Laker fan.  My Father-in-Law is a huge Laker fan.  It’s a requirement to be in my in-law’s family.  I will cheer the Lakers everytime – except for when they play Boston. You know…

  • The Psychology of the Coolest

    I wrote a post on the Psychology of Cool.  And I used a graphic to demonstrate who was cool.  Then I came across The Law of Diffusion of Innovation – check out the wikipedia entry.  The entry uses a similar graphic, but according to the Law of Diffusion of Innovation,…

  • Emotionally Frozen

    I read a lot.  I love reading and learning.  I have been doing a lot of writing lately – mostly dissertation and research writing. Today, I was reading something and came across this phrase, “emotionally frozen.”  I can’t even explain it to you, but it just jumped off the page…

  • Internet Hot

    Someone did a search today for “Internet Hotness Conversion Factor.”  The reason that I know that is that they did a search for that phrase and found my blog post entitled Internet Hotness Conversion Factor – check it.  It’s not an amazing post, but what trips me out more than…

  • Circumvent Identity Formation

    You can circumvent the identity formation process of someone else by not allowing them to freely explore and express their own identity.  When you superimpose your standards or tell someone who to be and how to act, you condition them and teach them to perform.  It is not identity forming. …

  • Everything Forms

    I can’t believe that I haven’t written about this yet.  A key to identity formation is that everything forms.  Everything has the potential to construct and shape your identity.  Every book that you read, tv show that you watch, song you hear or sing, relationship that you’re in and experience…

  • Psychology of Like

    Psychology n., pl., -gies. The science that deals with mental processes and behavior. The emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual, group, or activity: the psychology of war. Subtle tactical action or argument used to manipulate or influence another: He used poor psychology on his employer when trying to make…

  • LL34: Breaking My Own Rules

    Do you have leadership rules?  Rules that you follow in leadership?  I broke one of my big rules this past week.  The rule is – things should be handled in the appropriate level.  If you want an explanation – email me. I failed last week (actually, it happens more often…

  • Tweet Thought

    I was talking to my friend Scott yesterday (here is his blog), and I asked him a question about urbanism and social media.  I asked him for a response to my question, but I only wanted a tweet thought.  I only wanted 140 characters – because if you can’t tweet…

  • Do You Have a Dumb Phone? #dumbphone

    It’s the opposite of a smart phone-you know-one with hardly any features.  It basically makes calls and is simple.  It might just be a messaging phone, but it isn’t a dumb phone. What is dumb is that you pay through the nose when you buy a subsidized phone.  That’s dumb. …

  • No Cell Phone Service

    Do you know the bliss that is –  “No Cell Phone Service.”  On a drive down the California coast last week, I had a few hours of No Cell Phone Service.  It was quite interesting.  For the first few minutes, it was quite difficult – seeing as I was on…

  • You Can’t Try To Be Who You Are

    ….that was a line from an article that I read today.  It was an article about a band, and they were criticizing the band for sounding too much like —- themselves.  The response was that you can’t try to be who you are.  You just are who you are.  You…