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Little Red Wagon
July 21, 2021
I wasn’t a camp kid. I never went to camp. But somehow as a small child I nevertheless learned and sang that horrible Little Red Wagon song:
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What do May flowers bring?
May 24, 2021
Maybe it’s the time distortion field created by the pandemic. Contemplating the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and all the excited utterances made by corporations, financial institutions, politicians, and others over the course of last summer, I keep hearing a tired old playground riddle in my head: April showers bring May flowers. What do Mayflowers bring? Pilgrims!
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Frames of reference
March 30, 2021
Partly because I’m a former aerospace engineer, partly because I’m teaching Innovative Social Enterprises again this term, partly because my family has been tossed into a new context following my dad’s sudden and unexpected death at the beginning of this year, and probably for several other reasons besides, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about frames of reference.
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Vector capital
December 7, 2020
Those of you who follow me on twitter know that I tweet erratically, and I primarily use social media to amplify the endeavors and thought leadership of those who are working directly or indirectly to foster peace, justice, sustainability, and equity, , and/or to reframe our existing social constructs to be more inclusive, humane, and creative.
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Startups and upstarts
September 15, 2020
Lately I’ve been thinking about the unsubtle distinctions between startups and upstarts. Startups are good. Upstarts are better.
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Network or Barrier?
July 13, 2020
Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard a venture firm touting its “proprietary network.”
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Form, Function, and Identity
July 9, 2020
On July 4th, this past Saturday, gratefulness.org posted an apposite Toni Morrison quote as their “Word for the Day”: The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Audacious realism
May 6, 2020
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about our human preference for comforting certainties over disquieting realities. When I was in elementary school, we did a fair bit of rote learning.
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Breaking and remaking
March 18, 2020
The world is shifting. Or to be more precise, life as we know it has been shifting at a logarithmically accelerating pace for at least a few hundred years, and now we are also experiencing human society being shaken by a new pandemic. All around us systems we thought of as invulnerable are proving increasingly fragile.
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Ends and Means
January 28, 2020
This past weekend I was — like many others, I expect — badly jolted by the devastating news of Leila Janah’s untimely death at the age of 37.
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Come Celebrate with Me
November 26, 2019
As we head into the year-end holidays, the sub-genre of holiday- and particularly Christmas-themed entertainment seems to adhere to a nearly monolithic message.
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Upgrade from FOSO to JOSO!
October 30, 2019
Language is a strange and fluid thing. Words and phrases fall out of use and disappear; new ones enter common usage; both reflecting shifts in what we care about and altering the paths along which we think.