Category: Ideas
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Identity and Yours
Your identity is yours. But someone else can take it and use it if they get to it first. I asked a friend this week – who has his @firstlast name as his twitter name – if he was the also the same “firstlast” with a 1 at the end…
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How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?
It’s a great question. It is interesting to me that even the technologists – the people that are involved in this stuff and know this stuff the best – can’t figure out how to delete your Facebook account. You can deactivate your account, but all of your information is still…
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Would You Buy What You’re Selling?
Would you buy what you’re selling? I think it’s a great question – when it deals with what you are selling. Would you pay for whatever it is you’re selling? Whether it’s a car or an education – would you pay for it. It doesn’t even have to be about…
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Significance in the Inconsistency
I had to post this comment from a previous post. It was posted by bwinwnbwi, and thank you for the comment. I love the idea that even the inconsistency in our identities matter. I agree totally. The theoretical basis for why I agree can be found below; however, I am…
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Publishers and Education
As much as publishers sound like they’re about education and teaching you – they’re about publishing. Publishers publish. Educators educate. Books are produced to sell. Don’t get me wrong. I buy a ton of books. I have a ton of books – it might actually weigh a ton. But books…
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Identity Work
Working on your identity is deep soul work. On the one hand, identity work deals with the clothes that you wear, the positions that you have, and the way that you project your identity. That’s the easy stuff. On the other hand, identity is the reforming of the deep and…
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Easy Is Relative
It is easy for the talented to get stuff done – because they’re talented. Is it possible to become talented though? You might have noticed that I didn’t ask – is it easy to become talented? If everything was easy – more people would do it. If leading was easy…
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Smart Friends
I’m blessed to have some pretty smart friends – and like one or two dumb ones. I love learning from my friends. Some of them blog and just blow my mind with their ideas and insights. Some of them have PhD’s so they’re kinda really smart (well, at least to…
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Misappropriate Understanding
Have you ever misappropriated understanding? What do you think of when you read this phrase – misappropriate understanding? Do you think about other people first or do you first think about something that you did? What does that say about you and the way that you think? There are no…
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Dumb People Poetry
I checked out my stats today, and there’s a section where it lists the phrases that people used to find my blog. One of the phrases that someone searched for was “dumb people poetry.” I wrote a little 4 line poem about dumb people – check it out here. Now,…
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Unique Ubiquity
Is it possible to be Uniquely Ubiquitous? Unique Ubiquity – first of all, what were the series of thoughts that got me to think about this phrase? The question remains. Is it possible? To be one of a kind and everywhere? Here’s how thefreedictionary.com defines them. u·nique- (y-nk) adj. 1.…
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