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Kinetic vs Static

The 21st Century Needs to Retire Some Things

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Retire the NYSE Bell Ringing

This antiquated exercise in self-aggrandizement just doesn’t fit into our world anymore, a world where half of Wall Street was bailed out by the Federal Government (willingly or not) and where the nation is still grappling with a nasty recession. Even as glimmers of an economic recovery begin to perk through the muck and mire of this terrible and long-lasting recession, it hardly feels like a recovery now does it? Must be one of those “jobless recoveries” that the media is always going on about.

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Is Social Media a Social Movement?

Arts and Culture
Social Media Meritocracy

We will once again build walls. But they’ll be made of glass this time, not concrete. And we’ll be able to see the inner workings of things. If a book gets published and hits bestseller status. We’ll know why. And it won’t be because of slick packaging. Because everyone can have slick packaging. More so than ever, its what inside that counts.

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Is Our Culture on the Decline?

Kinetic vs Static
America in Ruins

I’ve been thinking a lot about decay lately, provoked by some of my offline readings, in particular the collected work of infamous rock critic Lester Bangs. It sounds terrible to even say something like “I’ve been thinking a lot about decay,” let alone write it down for posterity’s sake. I mean, how g-d damn decadent and narcissistic does one need to be to go brooding on about completely abstract issues like decay and the decline of western society. Who the fuck am I? Gombrich? Chesterton? I think not.

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Where Are The Heroes?

Kinetic vs Static
The Hero Superman

This is what we do to our heroes. We throw them down, we concentrate on their weakness and their failures. We mock them. We destroy them, and yet the only ones who are poorer for it, is us. Not them, us.

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Where is Leadership to be Found?

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Augusta National Controversy Tiger Woods

One of the traditions that golf strives to maintain is a code of honor. That code translates into keeping your own score, respecting your fellow golfers, for instance by not walking in front of their ball on the putting green. In short, golf is a game for gentlemen. And Tiger Woods is no gentlemen.

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A Look Into My Past, A Look Into My Future

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A New Kind of Teacher

But it has occurred to me as I have spent more time with business owners that one of my greatest values is in instructing businesses and brands, even individuals, how to think about the world, about their business, about the economy of which they are a part. Whether I am ultimately right or wrong is almost besides the point.

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There Will Be No Blog Today

Kinetic vs Static
Say No To Blogging

I am not going to blog today. I just don’t want to. I’ve got a busy day, finishing up a strategy for a client, meeting on-site with another, a gallery opening this evening. Just looks like I won’t have the time to put my thoughts down. I am tired of having thoughts.

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