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Left Brain + Right Brain = My Blog
This blog is chock full of joyful drawings and a few musings on personal branding, startups, creativity and being a beacon.
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"I adore your doodles... I swear looking at those bunnies lowers my blood pressure, calms my mind and makes me smarter. Who needs meditation when there are bunnies?"
~Caitlín Mowbray - Meditation Teacher, Astrologer and Soul Provocateur
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Have a nice day 2.0
A friend of mine has taken to closing his email with statements like “I’m having a great day, because I chose that.” or “Have the day you choose.” At first it struck me as a little bit of a heavy dip into the self-help genre, but the more I thought about it, the more I […]
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The Everything Syndrome
That Swiss army knife is great, it has everything in it, and it can do just about anything — if you don’t happen to have any real tools around. The multi-tool sacrifices the ability to do any one thing great, by trying to do everything. Unfortunately, the same is true of a lot of marketing […]
Posted in Branding Thoughts, context, mad scribblings, tools Comments closed
Trust: the best kind of asset
I’m a big fan of Seth Godin’s books, and on his blog he has a post entitled “No business model” which discusses how an altruistic act of managing a free community newsletter made by an online marketer has not only been helpful to a community, but has also had a positive impact on his firm’s […]
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Love Letters
Have you ever written a love letter? You know, that perfectly crafted, written and re-written missive intended to communicate the depth and sincerity of your affection? Not just the simple “I love you” greeting card, but a serious Cyrano-esque, sophisticated dispatch on fancy-shmancy paper? Of course you have, but have you ever sent one to […]
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Logo Lacking Luster?
It’s an all too common tale: In the entrepreneurial fervor of launching a new company snap decisions are made. The budget is tight, you need a business card for that first big day of networking at the chamber of commerce, and you just found out that your partner has maxed out the corporate credit card […]
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What is the opposite of "Graceful Degradation?"