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Category Archives: thinking

Taking an Inventory

I think I’m at a point where I just want to lay back and sort things out. When you look for answers you only get more questions. The key is to find the right questions. I don’t really care if everything I do is wrong in 2010. I’m just going to set some goals for [...]

The Anatomy of Social Change in the Information Age

Technological advances radically alter dynamics of social change. The election of President Obama is a watershed moment that represents an evolution over a decade in the making. For the first time, social networks were mobilized on a scale that silenced critics of the technology’s limited utility to society or the “realness” of online social connections. [...]

The Obama Campaign Significance

Barack Obama ’s successful bid for president is probably just as significant as having our first (at least openly) multi-racial president (remember his mother is white and he only met his father once or twice). He changed the nature of campaigning for good and finally delivered on the promise of information technology driven movements. Just [...]

Lessons of a Working Stiff

This last month was living hell if it ever was one.  Let’s see, I’ve already racked up close to 60 hours of overtime and I still have a whole next week for more.  There were a couple days where I showed up at the office at 8AM and left 11:30PM.  Not to mention I caught [...]

The Icon: Bruce Lee

I was checking out a book on Bruce Lee’s martial arts legacy the other day and just couldn’t help but reflect and be inspired by the man. Although he died at a young age, he pursued martial arts with an intensity that couldn’t be matched by even serious masters at a young age.
He was the [...]

It’s not who you know, it’s how many. Or is it?

They say it’s not what you know but who you know.  In social networking it seems like it’s not who you know but how many.  The most blatant example is Tom of MySpace fame must be hard to have a life when you have millions of friends in the double digits.  Whenever a new social [...]