I wrote a letter this morning to Blake Mycoskie of TOMS. I hope he reads it. I wrote to tell him about The Hive and the wonderful things we are doing there. I am very inspired by TOMS and their one-for-one strategy – to give away a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair they sell. It’s brilliant. I hear they are now applying it to glasses and...

We had a great time at RevenDay 2011. At least I did. I think everyone else did too. We had 10 people there total. The seven of us that work in the office, and three more folks who work remotely. We did Strengths Finder, and everyone seemed to really get value from it. There was no lack of talking going on, that’s for sure. We also looked at Stephen...

In the macro history of the human experience, the Internet is an absolute game-changer. Like the wheel or fire or the combustible engine or the microchip, the Internet is a more than a big deal. It affects the way we access information and communicate with one another, thus changing the human experience. Some things have not changed of course – love, jealousy,...

I can’t write. I just can’t seem to write. I try. I title. I first sentence. But I can’t write. I write in less than 140 characters, then I delete it and go to post it on twitter… when there, I don’t tweet it… seems old by then. I retweet, I facebook, I post some things some places, I share, I upload, I edit, I optimize, but I...

Everyday Trooper How do you change the lives of children for the better? My wife helps children everyday. She is a counselor at an elementary school in Clover, SC. She models positive and productive behavior for them. Listens to them. Validates them. Educates them. Helps them. Helps their families, and when necessary has to report issues and confront serious and...

Runny yellow yoke already dried littered with cigarette ashes that hover like flies, and are made alive by the breeze of the closing door, thick white creamer dripping from the crumpled thin-plastic container on the floor by a greasy fork. I arrive at the table still writing down the list of pork products that the man at fifteen, a real complainer, ordered as sides...

“One of every four animal species known to us is a specie of beetle.” — Douglass H. Chadwick Introduction: Liverpool. The speck borings of Ambrosia beetles. 1: The Cavern, at 9:10 (one after 9:09). Some beetles produce rasps and squeaks by rubbing their wings against their abdomen. 2: Hamburg, a naughty city. 200 million years ago, beetles, the...