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Which is the greater cost: the cost of risking everything to solve the problem or the cost of living with blinders [...]
I know this may be beating a dead horse, but I think you’re great.
Why?
Because you were created uniquely. To do something unique. To be someone who changes things where you are, whenever you are supposed to. You are different than anyone I’ve ever met. And you have [...]
They are only words.
I have allowed words to be merely words, disregarding action. You have, too.
We must act.
We.
Must.
Do.
Something.
It’s not hard. Just. Do. Something.
•Become everyone’s favorite friend.
•Become super cool.
•Help Haiti.
•Embrace a radical idea that could change everything.
•Stop doing everything in order to do something.
My pastor reminded me of this line from a 1980s anti-drug ad. It made me remember that memorable lines are hugely important. As much as they are parodied and sometimes mocked…. they stick. Sometimes for decades.
Focused and clear, the point is made.
…. Because he’s on the edge of something quite large.
He tweets “I just wanted to play the guitar for people. Everything else just sort of popped up and I improvised, and kept doubling down on it…”
Some of his lyrics and actions are debatable, but his music is solid. This is a guy with incredible influence [...]
Almost every day on the drive home from my office, usually between 5 and 10 p.m., I see a man standing on a local corner. He is waiting for someone. For some thing. He unceasingly watches his back. He’s not accepting donations or and chances are he’s not without a home. [...]
In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” he talks about how huge mistakes aren’t usually made by one error, but instead by multiple, compounded, uncorrected errors.
He relays the problems that led to the near total disaster at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979:
… There was a relatively routine blockage in what is called the [...]
Okay. Not the world, but maybe it can save something. Perhaps the barking dog is worth our attention.
Sometimes the bark is so incessant and annoying that we choose to ignore it.
A little bit of the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” kind of thing. At this point, we might even be [...]
This is how we forget Haiti:
Another snowstorm.
A football game.
Chili and a fire.
The dogs need a bathroom break.
A friend calls.
We need to run to the store.
We forget about tent cities, mass graves filled with bodies, people starving, the loss of hope, and ten small dollars that could make a [...]
What would happen if you did?
We realize the consequences of stopping everything when a friend passes or when a surgery puts us on the couch for a few weeks.
And what are the consequences?
As far as our own productivity, usually not many. We overestimate our own importance, as if the world might [...]
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