Staying Gold with Endless Fire

  “To say ‘I love you‘ one must first know how to say the ‘I. ‘  Ayn Rand   ”The Analytics Game is all about optimizing inspiration-per-minute.” Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist at Google     Everyone has their Goliath, their dragon, and their greatest fear. From Odysseus to you, the greatest journey is the…

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Symphony of Hope

  I have a new addiction; I may need an intervention. I can’t stop reading travel writer Rachel Howard. The last time I had an addiction of this intensity was when I first read David Sedaris. David Sedaris makes me laugh so hard, and so often. He knocks me out page after page, and he has helped…

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Embracing Recreativity

    After Gods of Greektown, it has been important to me to continually evolve and escape self-made silos.  To feel confident that I can produce something new I had to endure plenty of devastation and humiliation, experienced being wrong, again and again, and dive into the darkest corridors of my blind spots of ignorance…

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Why Techie Hipsters are Less than Zero

Last week I went to a Salesforce world tour event in Toronto. The presentations were persuasive and enjoyable. All the presenters were extremely likable. I expected to have fun, and I did. But suddenly, from out from the blue clear sky, a flurry of questions struck my central nervous system. Just like that, the inner constitutional architecture…

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The Greece Lightning Effect

Greek culture has sparked many  Black Swan–Huckleberry Finns throughout human history. These are the outlier anomalies  that unsettle conventional wisdom.  Modern science, art, technology and the many renaissances would not exist without Greece.  The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010 is a great example of this.  After this day, no one could help but feel that…

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Earning a Greek State of Mind

There are those who call themselves Greeks who are, in actuality, frauds.  It truly pains me to witness this hyperinflation of counterfeit egos: those who express an empty patriotism for Greece without nurturing a Hellenic conscience.  This Hellenic state of mind is the result of a continuous development of reason; it is a set of…

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