December 2011
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An Open Response to Time's 2011 Person of The...
We are living amidst a global revolution.
We have access. We are being heard. We are making a difference.
And it’s sparking new behaviors.
It’s not only inspiring – it’s empowering.
As I read Time’s piece, it reminded me of a common misconception around social media – that it in of itself is the revolution.
Technology is a facilitator of human behavior, not a creator.
Time’s Kurt Anderson...
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Inspiration Is For Amateurs
Learnings: Social Storytelling Experiment →
phoundit:
At Phoundit, we love to experiment. So last month, we dropped several yellow notebooks throughout Manhattan asking people, “What makes you happy?”
Our purpose was two-fold:
1. How can we better understand the behavior of sharing online what we find offline? (We asked finders to…
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Redesigning Lost & Found
Back in March, I was fortunate to experience the epitome of human kindness. My journey began as I was heading to the bank to cash a check, where upon I panicked after realizing I’d lost it (womp womp). About a week later, I was blown away to find a check in my mailbox, returned by a good samaritan who found it along the way.
It moved me. Someone took time out of their day to do the right...
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Rethinking Airplane Mode
New York Times columnist Nick Bilton wrote an interesting piece questioning why passengers need to power down their electronic devices during takeoff and landing.
Bilton writes:
New technologies are often greeted with fear and that is certainly true of a disruptive technology like cellphones. Yet rules that are decades old persist without evidence to support the idea that someone reading an...
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Defining My Purpose
Moved by Simon Sinek’s TED talk, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, I decided it was time to take an introspective look to articulate my “Why”.
In my experience as an entrepreneur, it’s imperative to remember why you’re in the game - why you risk over ounce of stability to make your idea happen. Especially in this climate, it’s easy to be...
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