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I haven’t posted on gu.e since early December. Though I don’t feel the need to defend myself, I would like to inform my faithful readers—all three of you—that I haven’t forgotten about the blog or stopped writing. About a week before Christmas I crunched some numbers and discovered that to meet my goal for the […]
I recently received some neckties from my friend Xan’s soon-to-be-renamed clothing company, Buffalo & Company, and I found a card with this Teddy Roosevelt quote in the box: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done […]
My friend David at Yeah Yeah Creative pointed me to Conan’s farewell during his last night of hosting The Tonight Show. His sincerity will surprise and inspire you: “If you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen.â€
Perhaps you remember—but hopefully you don’t—back in February when Ellen DeGeneres put a lock of Justin Bieber’s hair up for auction on eBay. Complete with plexiglass box, Justin Bieber’s signature, and a letter of authenticity signed by Ellen, the auction closed with a final bid of $40,668. Proceeds benefitted The Gentle Barn, a charitable organization […]
Back in November, I read these words from Seth Godin: “Learning from a failure is critical. Connecting effort with failure at an emotional level is crippling. … Early in our careers, we’re encouraged to avoid failure, and one way we do that is by building up a set of emotions around failure, emotions we try […]
Optimism is a choice. Events do not change us. Our perceptions of events change us. A man loses a child in a car wreck and shakes his fist at God: if God were good, then he never would have let this happen. The man’s wife instead sees a broken world where an unhappy stranger drinks […]
In a recent post, I wrote about the importance of curiosity. Thomas Edison never would have gotten 1093 patents without a mountain of it. Another personality trait that I believe Edison must have had in abundance is optimism. I can’t speak for Edison’s day or his business colleagues, but I know more pessimists than optimists. […]