With thanks to Joel for passing on a gem of an inspirational talk - I recommend this to everyone!
Ted talks: Jonathan Harris: The Art of Collecting Stories”…

Jonathan -any chance you want to collaborate one day?!?

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?"
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A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the ground. Yet [...]

"Asking questions is fundamental to the practice of dropping knowledge. There is no better way to initiate a dialog than with a question, no better way to challenge conventional thinking, discover new viewpoints and stimulate fresh ideas…"
I have been meaning to post on this ever since a kindly reader of this blog whom I have [...]

"What is the Secret to Happiness?…
What "Every rabbi, philosopher, and grandmother has been telling us that for 2000 years"
The latest research from Harvard’s School of Psychology is on Happiness - by Daniel Gilbert, who has incidently just released a book: Stumbling on Happiness.
I read about it in today’s Boston Globe  (the quote in bold is directly from [...]

Evidently all my talking about the importance of conversation and story has become a sticky message for those around me - I received this article "Are We Having a Conversation Yet? An Art Form Evolves in today’s NYTimes. (You may need a password for this link after today but I have posted the whole article in the comment section [...]

If E-mail had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said "hey, forget e-mail - with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people” - Anon  
I am mid-article writing with two fabulous women, Marge and Brenda, on the benefits of telephone as a medium for global conversations and learning. [...]

Solar calendar new year!
Hope you have/had a great one and looking forward to sharing 2006 (and beyond) with you all!

NY is in the midst of a transit strike.
The day when you have three back-to-back and important-to-you meetings.
In three distinct areas of the city.
All disctinct from the area you reside.
Somewhere Murphy is chuckling.
And after a brief moment of frustration I decided to join him.
 
Transit strikes are striking things.
In a city like [...]

The Bite:
You can change your life by renaming it! (And I can help if you like)
And to begin the process I have created a new catagory for it.
The first renaming exercise: everytime you here Problem or Issue rename it "challenge" and "contradiction".
Huh? Keep reading. And even if you don’t keep reading, please do try it and [...]

I have been resisting my blog post on wikipedia "the free encyclopedia" for some time, and I am going to keep resisting it: except to say the whole concept exites and scares me: - the former being I love the free access to knowledge and information and I love reference tools and research without having to [...]