James Ream

davemorin: MHow to Get Good at Making Money | Advice from Jason...

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:18:57 -0400

davemorin:

MHow to Get Good at Making Money | Advice from Jason Fried on Inc.com

davemorin: “The market for something to believe in is...

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:18:44 -0400

davemorin:

“The market for something to believe in is infinite.” - Hugh MacLeod

the hughtrain | gapingvoid

allthingseurope: I wish I was in the riding tour. (by Anna...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:55:51 -0500

allthingseurope:

I wish I was in the riding tour. (by Anna Guðmundsdottir)

Longufjorur Beach, Iceland

http://www.kpcb.com/usainc/

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:54:28 -0500

http://www.kpcb.com/usainc/

"There is strong shadow where there is much light."

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:09:19 -0500

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(via awakeinthedream)

awakeinthedream: Azam Ali - Sackpipslat

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:23:00 -0400

awakeinthedream: Azam Ali - Sackpipslat

"There’s no recovery because it’s not a recession. It’s a great transition...."

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:01:43 -0400

“

There’s no recovery because it’s not a recession. It’s a great transition. http://nyti.ms/c7uYl4

—
More about the transition: http://www.evolver.net/news/2010/03/30/time_magazine_predicts_drop_out_economy

”

- umairh

hiten: newforest: picture-perfect-world: mymoleskinesays: (vi...

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:49:38 -0400

hiten:

newforest:

picture-perfect-world:

mymoleskinesays:

(via thephotofairy)

The Dropout Economy

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:13:00 -0400

The Dropout Economy:

As this recent issue of Time magazine predicts, the new ten-year trend is “The Dropout Economy,” where young people are forced to explore radical alternatives as work disappears and the financial burden becomes intolerable: “As conventional high schools and colleges prepare the next generation for jobs that won’t exist, we’re on the cusp of a dropout revolution, one that will spark an era of experimentation in new ways to learn and new ways to live.” Time’s forecast could be read as a desperate plea that young people, instead of rising up in fury against the older generation that depleted the planet’s resources at their expense, will make virtue out of necessity: “Faced with the burden of financing the decades-long retirement of aging boomers, many of the young embrace a new underground economy, a largely untaxed archipelago of communes, co-ops, and kibbutzim that passively resist the power of the granny state while building their own little utopias.” -Exerpt from This Daniel Pinchbeck article.

This chef talks about a thriving food ecosytem rescued from a...

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400

This chef talks about a thriving food ecosytem rescued from a factory-type farm. It is a model of responsible food-security that restores the environment while producing the best quality food.

THE NEW POOR: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:04:00 -0400

THE NEW POOR: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt:

Great NYT article about the need for radical innovation in education. @unclasses and @teachstreet are a good start.

Photo

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:09 -0400

My Motivations

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:21:22 -0400

I’m motivated by collaborating with my friends, family, and neighbors to work towards a shared vision of a better neighborhood, city, and world.

I’m motivated my merging science and technology with the natural world. Designing systems that allow nature and humans to compliment one another.

I’m motivated by growing myself every day. Being so happy and healthy the people around are inspired to help my endeavors, and create their own visions of a better world.

Ira Glass on creative persistence. “It’s like there’s a gap. For...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:48:52 -0500

Ira Glass on creative persistence.

“It’s like there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, okay … it’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s … it’s trying to be good, it has some ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer.”

Fully worth your 5 minutes.

Powerful, I highly recommend you watch this.

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:15:00 -0500

Powerful, I highly recommend you watch this.

"The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that inspires your community..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:15:04 -0400

“The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that inspires your community (formerly known as customers) so much that they cannot help but become vested in your cause and become your ambassadors, your teachers, and your leaders.”

- Andrew Kortina

Read the full post entitled: Community and Camaraderie are the Foundations of 21st Century Business

(via msg) (via mikehudack)

(via rahmin)

"You might be innovative — but are you awesome? For most, the answer is: no. Game over: in the 21st..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:35:16 -0400

“

You might be innovative — but are you awesome? For most, the answer is: no. Game over: in the 21st century, if you’re merely innovative, prepare to be disrupted by awesomeness.

—

If you don’t know how to be awesome, ask your customers, ask your children, ask your employees. go to bioneers.org. find out how to be better. your employees will love you for it.

”

- The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (via davemorin) (via papilicious) (via hiten)

"The first step, then, is for designers to begin to imagine themselves as leaders – of design firms,..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:19:14 -0400

“The first step, then, is for designers to begin to imagine themselves as leaders – of design firms, of communities, of cultural organizations, of corporations, of government, of society. Designers do not need to position themselves as second to anyone. Tall order? Remember, big changes are easier to make than small ones. You have a secret weapon: Why, in novels and movies, does the architect always get the girl? The psychologist doesn’t. It’s not because the architect knows how to fix electric plugs. It’s because architects have a special mystique. Throughout history architects are associated with greatness, with creativity and beauty and strength and the courage and drama of designing and building a great cathedral or thrilling skyscraper or a lush park or an exciting and beautiful city or a simple, elegant home.”

- http://www.theoverlap.org/blog/?p=43

"So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed...."

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:57:05 -0400

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So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words — within our borders, and around the world. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum — “Out of many, one.”

”

- Obama’s Cairo message to Muslim world. Transcript - Lynn Sweet (via rahmin)

rahmin: I Wanted To Change The WorldBy Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D. When I was a young man, I wanted to...

Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:49 -0400

rahmin:

I Wanted To Change The World
By Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D.

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.

I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

(via John Erik Metcalf)

The continuous reminder to look within for happiness, growth and meaning.