Is anyone going this weekend who follows my blog? I know my best friend and biggest fan is going with me. I can’t wait, looks like the event is going to have some great speakers this year. I think I am most looking forward to hearing Tim Ferriss speak. As always I’ll take great notes and will have pictures and video after the event to share for those of you who won’t be able to make it.
Category: Random Stuff (Misc.)
The Blue School
I learned about The Blue School in May’s Inc. Magazine:
- “Original blue men Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton, together with their wives, Jen Wink, Renee Rolleri, and Jennifer Stanton, conceived the school as an alternative to the New York school scene. “There’s this incredible pressure in Manhattan private schools to get young children into Harvard. Like, at 2,” says Rolleri, whose background is in art therapy and child development. The Blue School, Goldman says, was a response to what was “not happening” in education. “Schools are educating creativity and innovation out of children,” he says, “and sucking the joy out of that experience.”
- Pre-k and Elementary
- Only 20 kids admitted per grade
- School that teaches kids to be kids
- Studies show if kids choose the curriculum they learn more
- $27k annual tuition
Momma Duck Story (Perfect for Mother’s Day)
Here is an email I received earlier in the week. You know I am a sucker for animal stories so here is one that is perfect for Mother’s Day. All moms need a helping hand…
A True Duck Story from San Antonio , Texas
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings hatched.
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Concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book
@danielabarbosa is a superstar, she posted these “pictures from the working session when the concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book was first discussed” on her Flickr account. “The Conversational Corporation examines the new ways your employees, the outside world and future generations will communicate and collaborate. From public conversations to social media projects started behind the firewall, social media tools are changing the way we work and altering the expectations of customers and colleagues. This e-book will help you explore the intersection between business and social media and understand the need to transform your organization into a “conversational corporation.” The eBook looks great, I would have been so starstruck to have been in the same room as Scoble…
Interesting Prison Quote
“Let’s start with a premise that I don’t think a lot of Americans are aware of. We have five percent of the world’s population; we have 25 percent of the world’s known prison population. There are only two possibilities here: either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States; or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice,”
Lunch On The Skyscraper
I have this photo hanging in my house, love it for some reason. This presentation reviews some of the historical photographs captured by Charles Ebbets in the early 1930’s. Most of them depict daily scenes of the workers who participated in the construction of the skyscrapers between 1920 and 1935. As you will see, the safety measures were somewhat peculiar and the photos were done trying to play down that situation.
JeremyPerson.com + Twitter
If you are into Twitter (ah…I love Twitter) and you want to get tweets every time I post something…guess what…you are in luck! I just created a Twitter account for my blog posts so every time I blog about something you will be notified. Yes I know you are just dying to get every post instantly. 🙂 Follow my website posts…if you want to follow me via my regular tweets, you can do so here.
“Resolutions for Couples”
I was cleaning up the house over the weekend and found a piece of paper taped to the back of a picture which I think was given to us during pre-marriage counseling with the church we were going to. Today is my parent’s wedding anniversary so it is especially timely. For those of you getting married (you know who you are), hope you find this helpful. Marriage is like fuel you put in your car, every now and then you have to fill it up before the tank empties for it to keep going.
- We will do our best not to go to sleep while we are still angry with each other. We will work hard to achieve peace before shutting our eyes.
- We will not add a burden to our relationship by living beyond our means. It only creates chronic discomfort and triggers an argument.
- We will try hard to respect each other’s different way of being in the world. We will allow that there is not just one way of doing something.
- We will each take responsibility for our own contributions to the problem we have, rather than point a finger at our partner.
- We will remember to celebrate our strengths as a couple. These are easy to forget when we are locked in conflict.
- We will agree that violence can never be a part of our relationship.
- We will accept each other as wonderful, flawed human beings with limits.
- We will expand our support system so that our relationship does not carry the entire burden when we are under stress.
- We will each take the risk of reaching beyond old, familiar ways of relating and discover a new mutually-rewarding way of experiencing the love that brought us together.
- We will become skilled in the art of forgiving each other.
- We will listen respectfully to each other. We need not agree, but we do need to be heard – and to hear.
- We will commit ourselves to maintaining a healthy partnership knowing that it takes work to create a rewarding life together.
When You Say Yes
I heard a great saying yesterday which basically says, “when you say yes to something or someone, you are saying no to something or someone else”. For instance, if you say yes to working more than 40 hours a week, you are saying no to being somewhere else. If you take a second to think about it, that is kinda deep, isn’t it?
Quick Web 2.0 Quiz
Think you are web 2.0 savvy? Yeah I thought I was too until I took this quiz which was pretty fun. I scored 19 out of 34. My question is how do you get the answers to the ones you don’t know? Maybe I missed that?