Half Empty
Paul Green Seward
The Morning That Death Was Killedby Steve Turner I woke in a place that was darkThe air was spicy and stillI was bandaged from head to footThe morning that death was killed. I rose from a mattress...
Easter
When I grow up...
."He's not a tame lion." "No... but he is good."
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. —Doug MacRay (The Town)
ConsequenceYou always knew which room of the house he was in because someone was laughing there. . —Douglas Gresham (step-son of C.S. Lewis) Read the full interview with Douglas
Bringing joy
Paying to do work
"Rage, after all can offer the same nourishing sense of self-righteousness that is available on more ordinary occasions to the most hypocritical of churchgoers. The core of such pleasure is never to...
Plank in my eyeMy football fantasy is that football would cease to exist. What a stupid sport..
Fantasy Football. Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty...
Afraid of the QuietThe fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness...
The Fatal Thing...A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. — Henry David Thoreau .
Words in action.. We all need each other. We all need second chances. We all need to learn from the replay. The umps, the cops, and me. — Jon Foreman .From Jon's excellently written response to the Officer...
Jon Foreman — pt II. People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. — Simon Sinek . . .
PassionYou're better off with a kick-ass Half, than a half-assed Whole —Jason Fried from Rework .
ReworkConsider blogs. Their great wonder is their dynamic speed. We are exposed to many more ideas than previously possible and given a chance to dialogue in near real-time. Yet because of their brevity...
The Digital AgePeople will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant. And because they are filled...
InformationIf you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like. ...
Keep Your Friends Close & Your Enemies... as Employees?
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