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Create+Build

…’helping you with all your needs’

July 16, 2010

I’ve always hated the marketing line …’helping you with all of your ______ needs.’
Shirly will help you with all of your real estate needs. Ben’s plumbing, for all of your plumbing needs.’
I always thoughts I hated this term because it was lazy, banal and boring. It lacks creativity. But now I realize why I really [...]

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Best Letter to Employees Ever

June 30, 2010

I had big plans to write something substantial today. Something paradigm-shifting. Earth-moving. Cliche-triggering. But instead I just came across this - the best hey-I-sold-the-company-to-Amazon-letter-to-employees ever, on the occasion of Woot.com selling to, yes Amazon. If I am ever good enough to exit at 110 million, I’d love for my communication to be this…errr…good?
“We think now [...]

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Something about drive and calmness

June 6, 2010

…today makes these links feel appropriate. It’s a near-lazy day in Oxford, hinting at mugginess. I’m calm and partially refreshed after a couple days away. It’s a day for exploration and productivity, but mostly for those intriguing spaces between the two. Here are some of today’s better links.
Pictory’s Profile of NYC. Pictory takes the weekly “sites I [...]

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15 Hip Hop Tracks for Tackling the World (1/3)

May 31, 2010

Music is fuel. I rely on hip hop a lot. It helps me recover, pump myself up, find drive and find meaning. Here’s 5 tracks that do that for me. 5 more tomorrow, and the final five the day after. Today? Context.
A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (ft. Faith Evans)
This is a B Original. [...]

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Less Talk More Make

May 25, 2010

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(by Jen Collins via Chutter)
       

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Videos Wanted on Inspiration, Storytelling, Power and Networks!

May 21, 2010

Hi folks,
In pulling together content for Intrapreneurship Week here at SBS, I’m after compelling and concise videos/talks that speak to any of the areas below:
- Understanding our personal motivations, passions and inspirations
- Communicating this through vision, storytelling and other mechanisms
- Understanding power, and applying it through hard and soft means
- Creating networks and building coalitions
I’ll [...]

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Aether Apparel - Wicked Aesthetic, One Question

May 19, 2010

I recently noted my love of jackets. Then I stumbled across Aether Apparel. The site prompted a sharp intake of breath as I admired the clean elegant design and beautiful photography. Great name. It extended their clothing aesthetic. If I were to start/join an outerwear company, it would be something like this. (Or Arc’teryx, but [...]

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Google’s Nexus One: Designed for Wear?

May 11, 2010

I’ve been rocking the Google Nexus One since January. I’m not easy on my gear, so I suspect I’m a good case to see how well it’s designed for wear and abuse. (Note: we’re not talking about the os, apps, functionality or broader open source philosophy here. I like all of those. Just the wear [...]

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Doing it Right: Good Examples of Good Tech Solutions

May 9, 2010

Jackie’s been wandering around SS Africa for nearly two years, working with different organizations. This has given her some insight into what is working and what isn’t in world of appropriate tech development (anyone with a better idea for this stale term?).
This week she posted a series on organizations that are doing a good job [...]

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Saturday Projects

May 8, 2010

In my continuing effort to do no work on Saturdays (and due to the fact that my bike was broken), I decided to spend the day sourcing and building a new rear wheel.
I first began building my own bike wheels around 15 or 16, when biking was basically a religion to us. I don’t [...]

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