Time for a short reflective post on Twitter again. I really like the possibilities the platform has offered me in real life, as I’ve had the chance to meet and greet with a lot of people I would possibly never have met other wise. David Fuller was the first guy, a British sports marketing professional visiting west Sweden for sailing
During the International Science Festival Gothenburg this weekend, I had the privelege to listen to former Harvard professor Brian Palmer, speaking on the subject of Civic Courage. Man, was he and his story an inspiration. Palmer, nowadays a guest professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, talked about the dangers and possibilities of civic courage in different parts of the world.
Sometimes, wisdom comes from the most unexpected of sources. Rashard Lewis, the formerly doping suspened basketball star of Orlando Magic, so perfectly put into one sentence what I needed an entire blog post to (try to) say the other day. “I felt more comfortable going into that first playoff game. It most definitely makes a difference, because when you’re more relaxed
They’re at it again. Hiding behind cool effects and the old trick of ridiculing their opponents by changing focus from what they are really trying to accomplish. You know what I said about hidden agendas the other day? That intelligent people see through them? So will everyone that watches this mindnumbingly futile attempt to look like something they clearly are
I guess you need to be relaxed and at peace with yourself to produce in most jobs, but it is even more so if you work in some kind of a creative business. Working with PR, marketing, journalism, writing or such, you simply cannot just punch the clock – you need to more or less constantly produce material that others
After being kind of a safety junkie for the best part of my life, I’m going all in on life now – on all levels. As Robert F Kennedy so eloquently put it in his Day of Affirmation speech in South Africa back in 1966: “We also know that only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
A volcano went of in Iceland. Media is all over the ash cloud soon engulfing Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and what not. As a friend said, “Wasn’t this how the dinosaurs became extinct?” Doomsday it is! Tomorrow, I imagine myself waking up in the apartment. Outside, the crows are circling a dead, black city. Gotta make today count then? What
My office room mate @stdtriangular showed me something yesterday, that I’m sure many of you out there has already seen. But for those of you who has not, watch this and try to keep it in mind next time you want to hire me for a gig
The past year has changed me in such profound ways that I would never have been able to imagine it. So much happened both professionally and privately, and I learned. Learned who I am, what makes me happy and how to treat other people. Listen, involve and be honest Professionally, at this time of the year in 2009, I was
CBS and Smart Planet got some heat the other day, after journalist Dana Blankenhorn used an illustration by Chris Buzelli without permission. Funny, a journalist should know better, right? Anyway, of course Dana should not have used the illustration and he should have appologized first. But that’s just self evident. What I find more interesting is one of the comments to