Quatre Muses: Euterpe, Polihímnia, Clio, Melpòmene, Museu de Cirene Originally uploaded by Sebastià Giralt Euterpe (muse of music and lyric), Polyhymnia or Polymnia (muse of sacred song and rhetoric), Melpomene (muse of tragedy), Museum of Cyrene, Libya. Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles. Steven Pressfield is a writer, best known for […]
Shiny happy purple cow Originally uploaded by heiwa4126 A purple cow? Now that’s something to remark about. Being a me-too business gives you me-too results. In “Purple Cow”, Seth Godin gives us many examples of purple cow companies. The J. Peterman catalogue descriptions were so over the top that the fictional J. Peterman became a […]
Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G Allen did it again. After the success of They followed up with Cash in a Flash. It follows the same format of the story of Michelle on one side and the how-to part on the other. The take home message is that the only thing stopping us is fear […]
Seth Godin, thought-leader extrordinaire, has asked more than 70 of today’s top thinkers to write a page each about what they are thinking about/planning for the coming year/want to share. He has compiled it into a pdf that he is encouraging all to share. Here’s what I’m thinking about/planning for the coming year/want to share. […]
The Future without fish. A very scary documentary about the state of fish world wide. Final conclusion: we’re at the end of the line especially with large species. To help: don’t eat endangered species and eat lower on the ocean food chain like anchovies. I just watched this movie and it got me thinking about […]
I read Robert Fulford’s Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto just before my trip to TO. Originally Toronto was laid out neatly by the army engineers 1793 who set it up as Fort York. As with most cities it’s early growth after that time was organic. Fulford’s tale takes us back to the 1800’s (Toronto […]
Anthony Bourdain calls himself a cook and a writer. He’s been other things, too like a drug addict and a thief. I’m not telling tales, he says it in this book. Most importantly, right now he looks to be a person living the life he wants. He says he’s too old to head back into […]
In Tribes Seth Godin tells us to step up and lead. In these days, when people don’t talk to their neighbours, they are looking for ways to connect and it remains to us to help them do that. People are looking for relevance. They aren’t interested in small talk, they want to talk about what […]
The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz Here’s a woman not afraid to start. Sometimes you just have to step forward and do. Once you start, you can check in and make adjustments as needed. Jacquline got a dream job out of university as an international banker traveling the world. Something about the culture of the […]
